If your spouse leaves you for someone else, do you think they still deserve the same treatment they received from you when your marriage was happy, and you were still together? Or do you believe that entails the end of you going out of your way for them, especially on major holidays?
This man sadly had his wife recently leave him for another man. They do have a daughter with one another, and their breakup feels like a fresh wound to him.
He’s doing his best to keep it together without letting his feelings leak out all over the place, but it’s far from easy. He’s also trying to navigate the separation like an adult, but he’s not going to lie: the last several weeks have been the most difficult moments of his life to date.
“We’re still in that awkward in-between phase where technically we’re married, but emotionally everything is shattered and tense. I’m hurt, confused, exhausted, and mostly focused on getting through each day without completely falling apart,” he said.
“Today, on Mother’s Day, she sent me messages saying she was sad that I didn’t think about Mother’s Day at all, and that everyone around her had received flowers, gifts, or at least congratulations.”
“I explained that emotionally, I’m in a very dark place right now because of the breakup and everything surrounding it. She then said she still would have appreciated at least a small gesture or a message, maybe even encouraging our daughter (who was with me that weekend) to draw her something.”
He truly gets where his estranged wife is coming from, and she is still the mom of their daughter; that has not changed at all. But he’s having trouble understanding why she wants him to be kind and thoughtful to her when she literally left him for another man.
He’s left wondering if he was wrong to not wish his estranged wife a Happy Mother’s Day.
His estranged wife is a despicable person. He should have told her to ask her new man to buy her flowers or make her feel special on Mother’s Day, because that’s no longer something he has to do, since she ended their marriage.
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She is really one entitled piece of work to call him out and try to make him feel bad for not wanting to do anything for her today. Who cares if they have a kid they share? That doesn’t mean he has to do a single thing to celebrate the fact that she is a mom.
It’s just wild to me that she broke his heart and thinks she’s still deserving of his attention. What planet is she living on, because it can’t be Earth?
What do you think?
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