Her Teen Stepson Revealed That He’s In Love With Her, And She Has No Idea Where To Go From Here
A 36-year-old woman got married to her 47-year-old husband a bit more than a year ago, and before they tied the knot, they were dating for about 2 years.
Sadly, she and her husband were widowed before meeting one another, and her husband’s first wife wound up passing away around a year earlier than her first husband passed away.
“We met in a support group for people whose partners have also passed from this same disease,” she explained.
“Neither of us were looking to date, but I kept feeling myself drawn to him (and he felt the same, he’d later admit), and here we are now.”
“We took it slow for the first 6 months. We didn’t meet each other’s children until we felt it was more than going through the same experiences and mutual loneliness.”
Her husband has 3 sons from a previous marriage; an 18-year-old son, a 15-year-old son, and a 13-year-old son.
From her previous marriage, she has a 15-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter. She was extremely anxious about all of their children getting to meet one another, but they couldn’t have gotten along better.
Everything was like magic from there on out, pretty much, and she felt they all finally found happiness together after experiencing some terrible tragedies.
Her husband included all of their children when he got down on one knee to propose to her. After she agreed to marry him, she and her kids moved to his house since it’s on the larger side.
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Not long after that, she went from holding down a pretty intense full-time job to taking a less demanding role, which meant she was home with their children frequently.
She would run their kids to various sports and drive them anywhere they needed to go. She also spent a lot of time helping her husband’s oldest son get prepared for college and worked with him on getting accepted.
Her husband’s oldest son did end up getting into his first-choice college, which is just 45 minutes from their home, so her stepson comes home pretty frequently.
It was when her stepson came home for Thanksgiving, though, that he sprung something pretty shocking on her, and it happened at the end of the evening when it was just the two of them alone in the kitchen, loading the dishwasher with dishes.
Her stepson was in front of the sink, washing off the dishes before passing them to her to put in the dishwasher.
“At one point, he looked at me with the saddest face and asked if we could talk,” she said. “I asked if he needed a hug, and he said yes, so I gave him a big one.”
“And that’s when my brain fired off warning signals. He held a little tighter than usual. His hands lingered a little longer than usual. This was different. He looked in my eyes and started crying while he confessed he was in love with me.”
“He said he was ashamed, and he’s been trying to stay away to make these feelings go away, but he can’t. He apologized several times and begged me not to tell his dad, among other things.”
“I’m so torn up about this. He feels terrible. He feels guilty and like a bad son. He’s already lost a mother, and now he’s scared he’s going to lose his father. Which I know will not happen.”
She’s convinced her stepson feels the way that he does because the relationship he had with his own mom wasn’t exactly normal or healthy.
“His mom didn’t dote on him and his brothers, and I do,” she continued. “Perhaps too much, now it seems. I keep thinking maybe I shouldn’t have been as affectionate (I’m a hugger, but I know I’ve never forced it on them), maybe I shouldn’t have worn bikinis in the pool and hot tub or sports bras and leggings around the house before/after workouts.”
“I’m rethinking every decision I’ve made in the past couple of years as a mother to these new children I’ve been blessed with, and it’s an awful feeling.”
She really has no idea where to go from here. She isn’t sure if she should tell her husband, especially since if she does, it will ruin her stepson’s trust in her, but at the same time, she does not want to lie to her husband at all.
How would you feel in this situation?
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