She Kicked Her Mom Out Of Her Apartment After Her Mom Told Her That She Lost A Good Man By Divorcing Her Ex-Husband
This 44-year-old woman thinks that her mother, 64, is way too obsessed with her former son-in-law, 43.
She and her ex-husband have been divorced for 13 years, and they have a 16-year-old son together.
According to her mother, her ex-husband is a wonderful father and extremely faithful man. Plus, her ex is kind, except when he’s irritated with someone.
She chose to divorce her ex-husband because she was upset that he seemed unmotivated to move up in his career and save up more money.
“Instead, he was okay making $17 an hour for a niche artsy small business where most of the employees were there because their passion outweighed their salary expectations,” she said.
“He was a college student doing a lot of office management stuff that in every other company would have paid more.”
Every time she told him that he needed to leave this job before the business potentially began to struggle, he rejected her perspective.
It got to the point where the two of them couldn’t see eye to eye, and she made the choice to end their marriage because of it.
Not long after the divorce, she started dating her boyfriend, 49, and her mother could not stand the man.
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Her mother constantly tells her boyfriend that the only reason he wins verbal debates is due to him yelling over everyone else, so it drowns out everyone else’s words.
She and her boyfriend, who works in the venture capital industry as an Executive Vice President, have two daughters together.
Their oldest daughter is 13, while the other is 8.
Even though she wants to marry her boyfriend, he doesn’t feel the same way.
In his view, since her first marriage failed, he doesn’t understand why she would go through with it again.
Since her ex-husband is still in her life while they co-parent their son, she feels like she and her ex have developed a friendly bond. In the meantime, her boyfriend is basically her son’s stepfather figure.
She and her ex emotionally support one another, and she thinks that he is able to handle her boyfriend’s professional “Type A” behavior in stride, and she’s grateful for that.
As of late, she and her boyfriend haven’t been in a good place with their relationship.
She describes him as the type of person who overexplains himself and feels greatly entitled.
“He thinks other people have to pay their dues to be on his level. I’ve compared the emotional labor I’ve had to put into somebody expecting me to run at the same pace as an Olympic sprinter. My boyfriend lectures me when I am insecure about other women,” she explained.
Despite the fact that she feels uncomfortable with how her boyfriend acts around other women, he doesn’t change his behavior.
Currently, she is struggling with her hormones, and her boyfriend feels personally offended when she doesn’t act happy or constantly smile while she’s around him.
“He recently said he wanted a break, and I honestly wanted a break from his Type A demands. I decided to move out, and my ex is Ubering now since the company he worked for closed, so we agreed I would move in and take care of his son and my daughters while he works or job hunts,” she shared.
After moving in with her ex-husband, her mother has been coming over constantly. A couple of days ago, her mother told her that she seemed like she was back to her old self again.
During the conversation, her mother made a joke about how she should break up with her boyfriend for her 45th birthday.
She didn’t feel upset about this joke, but she did feel offended when her mother told her that her ex-husband was a wonderful man, adding that because she divorced him, she lost an amazing person.
From her perspective, it was rude and untrue, so she asked her mother to leave her apartment. But her mother pointed out that the apartment wasn’t hers–it was her ex-husband’s. He had just allowed her to live there.
She thinks that her mother was angry with her for kicking her out.
Do you think she was wrong for being angry with what her mother said?
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