He Refused To Babysit His Girlfriend’s Kids Because He Barely Knows Them, But Now She’s Acting Super Distant
This 25-year-old guy has only been dating his girlfriend, who is also 25, for one month. Before that, they were in the “talking stage” for about a month, and now, he feels as though their relationship is beginning to get “somewhat serious.”
However, his girlfriend has two kids who are 4-years-old and 2-years-old, and ever since he recently refused to babysit them, things have been tense.
For some context, his girlfriend works two jobs to support her children, and he believes that she’s a great mom.
“I wanna say that I really respect how good of a mother she is to those kids,” he noted.
“That being said, I’ve only met her kids twice, and both times were very briefly– as it should be at the start of a relationship.”
Since his girlfriend is a single mother who’s constantly working, though, she sometimes needs some help, and he understands that. That’s why he’s pitched in with other tasks unrelated to childcare.
“I fixed her car– it was something small, a fuse– and I think she really trusts me,” he recalled.
But, just the other day, his girlfriend called him out of the blue and was crying. Apparently, her babysitter had canceled at the last minute, and she had no one to watch her kids while she was at work.
Then, she wound up asking if he could watch the children for around two hours until her mother was able to get to her house and take it from there.
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“But I flat out told her no, and that I was uncomfortable watching them and I barely even know them,” he revealed.
In hindsight, he realizes that he probably would have been fine watching the kids for just two hours. Yet, on the other hand, they’re very young, and he really doesn’t know them well at all. So, he just didn’t feel comfortable caring for children that he only met for a total of five minutes.
This forced his girlfriend to call in sick to work and stay home that day, too. Plus, ever since, she’s been acting like she’s angry at him.
“She said that she ‘totally understands,’ but she has been kind of distant,” he vented.
So, this tension has now left him wondering if refusing to babysit her kids was really the wrong thing to do.
Can you understand why he didn’t feel comfortable babysitting the children? Does his girlfriend have a right to be angry at him over that or not? What would you have done in his shoes?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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