She Didn’t Invite Her Children To Her Wedding Because, After Her Ex-Husband Cheated On Her And Moved In With His Mistress, They Kept Trying To Force A Friendship Between Her And Her Ex
This 48-year-old woman is looking forward to tying the knot with her fiancé, who is 39. However, it will actually be her second time saying, “I do.”
Apparently, her first marriage ended in heartbreak after she found out that her ex-husband was cheating on her. So, they got divorced about five years ago, and he wound up moving in with his mistress.
At the time, her ex offered her a “tidy” amount of money to go through with the separation.
“And I took that money and moved abroad, where I met my now husband,” she recalled.
But, now that she’s fallen in love again and is excited to get remarried, she’s battling drama with her kids– who found out she’s engaged and that they weren’t invited to her wedding.
For some context, she has a 27-year-old son and a 25-year-old daughter, who were 23 and 20, respectively, when she got divorced.
Back then, her children weren’t exactly angry at her ex-husband for cheating on her, either. Instead, they actually wanted her to be friends with her ex-husband and his mistress!
Her ex-husband also wanted her to “give her blessing” for his new relationship after their divorce, and she simply wasn’t on board with that. So, she cut him off.
“Apparently, I was his best friend, and he loved me as the mother of his children, but he was in love with his mistress,” she explained.
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“He was shocked when I no longer wanted to contact him.”
Nonetheless, her kids wouldn’t stop trying to meddle and force a friendship between her and her ex-husband. They would even do things like invite her to lunch or dinner and then invite her ex and his mistress without telling her.
Sometimes, her kids even straight-up lied about her ex not being at family gatherings. Yet, every single time, he always showed up.
“They cannot handle the fact that he and I are no longer on speaking terms and want us to get along,” she said.
That’s why she ultimately made the tough decision of cutting off contact with her children, too. She simply couldn’t handle them constantly trying to force her to be friendly with her ex-husband and expecting her to “graciously roll over” and look past the disrespect of her ex.
Since cutting her kids off, she’s also obviously gotten engaged and begun planning her second wedding. But, because they weren’t speaking, she never actually told her children about her new fiancé or informed them about the event.
So, her kids recently found out about her engagement through some extended family members, and they are extremely angry that they weren’t invited to the wedding.
However, after everything that’s happened between her and her children involving her ex and his mistress, she thought it was justified.
Still, with her kids now furious at her, she’s been left wondering if not extending an invite to her second wedding was really a jerky move.
Would you want to be friends with your ex after they cheated on you? Why do you think her kids expected her to forgive her ex-husband and his mistress so easily? Did she have a right not to invite her kids to her second wedding?
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