If you’re a parent, can you imagine taking in someone else and their children? Taking care of your own children is already a challenge, and adding another family under your roof sounds very intense.
One woman recently had to turn away her cousin and her three children because she’s already a single mom and has to worry about her own kid.
Growing up, she used to be very close to her cousin Mae. As they became teenagers and got older, they started to lose touch but would still call each other at least once every two weeks when there were in college.
But then, Mae seemed to disappear. During Mae’s third year of college, she stopped talking to everyone in their family.
Mae’s parents had to contact her classmates to find out where she went, and she eventually sent a note saying that she needed to get away and start over.
Mae had never indicated to her that she wanted to start a new life, and she felt hurt and abandoned by her.
She left up social media profiles just in case Mae needed to look her up and reach out, but she never did.
Today, she has a three-year-old son and is raising him as a single mom. She assumed Mae was a lost cause.
That is until almost seven years later when Mae returned home with her three children, a five-year-old daughter and a set of two-year-old twins.
“Mae never reached out during her pregnancies or after any of their births,” she explained.
“Mae explained that her daughter’s father had passed away, and the twins’ had taken off. She was doing her best on her own, but after the boy twin was diagnosed with a disability, she realized that she couldn’t do it on her own anymore.”
Mae’s parents offered to let her and the kids live with them, but Mae didn’t want to, as she was scared she’d be judged for disappointing them with her life choices. She said that living with her parents would be bad for her mental health.
Mae then asked if she and her children could move in with her and her son. She told Mae that she was also hurt by her actions and still resented her for taking off without telling her.
“I can empathize with being a mother, but I also need to put my own child’s well-being first,” she added.
“What if my son grows attached to her and her children just for her to run out of our lives again?”
Since telling Mae she couldn’t live with her, she and her three kids have been with her parents. Mae’s been texting her that living with her parents is putting a mental strain on her and that she thought their friendship still mattered to her despite her past actions.
Should she let Mae live with her, or did she do the right thing by making her live with her parents?
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