To be utterly flabbergasted re this Lady?

[GirlWithPointyShoes]

I have just been sent this link by a friend who is a step-mum. You may want to have something soft for your jaw to land on when it hits the floor.

bloody basic common sense should have been bold

And I suppose she will never allow her son to meet any future men she may get involved with...? Was waiting for the article to touch on that, but funnily enough, she didn't go there!

Good point Maryz

Quite right Maryz.

I also wondered if she is able to tell her DH who he is allowed to be with when he has his DS? Surely he is allowed ot do what he likes with him?

Imagine if she had come on MN and posted this in AIBU

Sorry Kayano I had cross-posted so hadn't seen your reply. Also have squirmy baby on lap. I just think the list you made is typical of how most single mothers think and behave anyway. I hadn't realised you were into lists either [
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What I mean is it shouldn't need saying and wouldn't if it wasn't for articles like this.

It's ok. I never meant the list to Imply that that's what I thought
Single mothers did. I just put my list as to how I would hope to behave having seen threads on here and frustrations on both sides.

(plus my SIL does actually behave like that so I'm aware that it can and does happen so that's why the list/ looking at other forums)

No wonder the ex got rid! How naive and stupid of her.

Words fail me. How deeply unpleasant she is. I quite understand her wanting to hold off on her son meeting the ex's new girlfriends immediately just incase the relationship is short-lived but what happens when the new couple have been married 10 years???

Feel sorry for the boy - if she is like this now, can you imagine how she is going to treat a future daughter-in-law who horns in on her relationship with her darling boy!!

Awful, selfish, dispicable woman.

DH's ex would not let me meet their 2 DS's for 6 months when we got together - apparently that is the maximum time by law you can prevent a new partner meeting and kids.
We were OK with this until we found out she had allowed several men to meet the kids and stay overnight in the marital home while the kids were there. One was an ex-alchoholic transvestite bankrupt.
Worthy of the DM!!

It wouldn't surprise me one little bit if the journo, her ex-husband and his new partner are all giggling at this over a nice glass of chilled Chablis over supper in Shoreditch. I imagine she writes this nonsense to order, and is laughing all the way to the bank, just waiting for poor old Liz Jones to slip on a banana and bequeath her the crown.

I am inclined to think you might have a point BOF. Like all those rent-a-gob journos who go on the Jermey Vine show to have a staged argument with one another about something they probably don't give two hoots about, but because it's a paying gig they'll vent theatrically about it for 15 minutes.

It's still nasty child exploitation. While LeBof could be right, and this is simply a money making/profile raising exercise on behalf of the writer and all the adults are in on the joke, it's still terrible for the kids involved. I've seem DM stories in which the writer has attacked their own children ('my toddler brat'), or just given too much personal information ('I love one child more than the other', 'I resent my stepchildren'). They still have to go to school after their story has been plastered across the national press together with photograph.

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oh that made me run cold - what a horrible person. Blimey my ex is with the woman he walked out on me for and my three children spend time with them both because 1. he is there dad and has every right to make decisions for them as to who they see 2. she is his girlfriend and part of his life 3. I am a grown up

does it hurt - yes - but I am NOT the issue - he is their father, they are OUR children

I would hate to be her when her son reaches 18

their ffs

I really hope this was written to order, and she isn't serious, because blimey, that is very very cold and twisted. And the photo is creepy. And although it isn't relevant at all, her shoes are hideous.

Wow! What a self centred, twisted, jealous bitch!? P-S-Y-C-H-O!!!

I couldn't believe this crazy cow when I read the article! The funny thing is she wrote it in a style where you can see she was expecting loads of people to agree with her and applaud her for being such a protective mum .... but there are more than a thousand comments calling her every name under the sun ! I hope the father gets 50/50 custody , poor kid having to grow up with that control freak

Kelly-Rose is a journalist PAID to write articles that are thought provoking. If you do not agree then that is fine, but you should not be so personal. I actually know Kelly-Rose she is a relative of my eldest daughter.
I am separated from her father and have been for many years and I can assure you that Kelly does not impose her views on anybody else, within her private life. My daughter sees her paternal family all of the time and this includes Kelly and if she has an opinion about our arrangement then she has never voiced it publicly. She is not mad or a lunatic and she does not live in somewhere as stereotypical as Shoreditch, talking rubbish whilst quaffing wine. She has worked very hard to become a journalist and is by all accounts (my daughter can be extremely critical)!!! A very good parent.

Any parent who says that handing over their child to an ex and their new partner is easy, has either not experienced it or does not care less. I think the view that she has expressed is extreme and very unrealistic. However, she is merely saying what most people think when they are in that position, but for obvious reasons do not say.My daughter's life has been enriched by having step parents and I think that Kelly would agree with that from a family perspective. There will be many women and men on here who have stopped their children from seeing their parents altogether, do you describe them as lunatics and as mad as a box of frogs?Kelly is only saying that her child at the present time should be number one and what is wrong with that?I know that when my daughter sees her father I expect her to be the main attraction and I imagine that she is during the time he spends with her.

Stupid selfish cow - poor little boy is going to have a right warped idea of relationships as he grows up.

I would rather my son have weird single time with nutbag me or alone with his father than with a second happy family. Maybe she thinks that whatever family he has with his father would surpass her weirdness and he would see her for the batty cow she is.

God poor bloke should have plenty of ammo if he took her to court for access - which I presume as the child's natural father who would be on his birth certificate is non conditional.

Really why would anyone describe their kid as 'the main attraction?'