To be gobsmacked at Kate Ferdinand complaining about not getting a Mother’s Day card from her then-boyfriend Rio’s children

[AngeloMysterioso]

When she’d only been living with them six months, and moved in when they’d been together less than a year?! And their own actual mother had died of cancer?

I get that she was already taking a great deal of care of them and would have appreciated some acknowledgment of that, but this is just taking the piss.

So she is doing it for the money and exposure then

There's no need for you to spout hateful shite on the internet and yet here you are!

Can't stand the pair of them. Poor kids.

Surely the point of delaying meeting the children is in case the relationship hits the skids, not that everything will go swimmingly if you do. It’s about making sure the children aren’t being introduced to someone as a partner who isn’t around for that long. It’s about the children not the adults.

@eyerollcentral I don't know what she's doing it for, I'm not in her head! I only know the facts, something you clearly struggle with. I've heard what she said about the mother's day card, the original OP did not include the full segment and this thread has gone on a tangent of hate and untruths.

I don't know Kate, but I can empathise. Not just as a SM but as a human. There are literally mothers all over the Internet blogging about how hard motherhood is. They're not getting all this shit. Their children will be fine. I wish my parents generation had been more honest about it all and I might not have gone into step-motherhood/motherhood with such rose-tinted glasses on. We encourage everyone to talk, except SMs. Sad.

Yes, but it doesn't mean the subsequent relationship will be any more or less successful. Clearly, their relationship has lasted so that's not an issue here is it?

Yeah that’s the damaging thing here, me saying totally non hateful things that you dislike. Not someone desperate for fame broadcasting as much as she can get away with about life with her bereaved step children for her own ends 👍🏻

No, you're wrong. You're far more damaging than she is. She's telling the truth. You're lying. You're spouting hatred. That is much, much worse.

I don't know anything about the woman but some posters seem passionate about disliking her.

She might be a bitch, I don't know but there's a lot of arguing going on about something she literally didn't say or do.

Weird.

she is awful - making a business opportunity out of her step childrens dead mother.

That's so much worse. In her mind she's replaced their mum.

eyerollcentral

I would give it up now - there seems to be a LOT of projection on this thread from some very angry stepmums! I think women often get with men with children and then are shocked at all the unprecedented issues it can throw up - which don’t necessarily get better over time.

I agree with you: the woman chose to get together with a recently bereaved man with recently bereaved children - no one held a gun to her head and she leads a very privileged life.

To be whinging about not getting a Mother’s Day card is pretty shocking - even if she then admits she was wrong to be upset - she has chosen to put that sentiment out there in public where everyone can read it including the children.

It seems like she is actively trying to garner sympathy and it’s rather nauseating!

Do you read minds then or?

Keep telling yourself that 🤷‍♀️

I'm not angry just because I'm a step mum, I'm angry because that poster is literally making things up that haven't seen said. You don't have to be a step mum to not like liars as far as I'm aware.

@Birdsbirdsbirds

"I felt like a mum"

How dare she say that? She is not and will never be their mum. Those poor children.

I don't need to, it's not me with the lying issue.

Oh god there's another one....

Because you can feel like a mum if you're mothering someone. That's not to say you feel like you've replaced their mum. It's not even close to being the same thing.

Did someone leave the gates open again?

Just the anger issue for you then. And I’m not a liar. You sound very immature.

If she didn't 'act like mum' she'd be a heartless bitch according to you lot. But how dare she 'feel like mum'.

I don't have any anger issues. You are a liar, you have said several things on this thread that were untrue. You have lied.

I'll give her top marks 10/10 for her perseverance at playing the stepmum to bag the footballer dad!👌 By god did she graft and we all heard about it

You're not going mad. I saw the thread and thought oh that is unreasonable to expect recently bereaved kids to give their Dad's girlfriend a Mother's day card.

But looking it up and reading the articles that wasn't what she said at all.