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To be devastated for DC

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sunrisesandcoffee · 25/11/2023 19:32

DC is 6 years old and has no contact with DF. I have been with my DP for 5 years so DC has looked at him as a father figure. DP treated my child as his own, constant I love yous, helping with homework. Days out, school events ect.

A week ago DP and I have an argument about what I would say is nothing and he has now left me. AIBU to be so upset that he wants no contact with my DC or is this totally normal behaviour towards a SC? It's made me look at future relationships so differently and I don't even know where to begin explaining what has happened to my 6 year old. I feel like I've been left to pick up to pieces and he's just walked away and carried on with his life.

I don't even know if I'm heartbroken myself as all I can think about is the guilt I have for bringing this man into my baby's life for him to just walk away like they didn't matter at all .

OP posts:
Pin0cchio · 27/05/2024 16:27

Plenty of actual fathers don't manage to bother to see their biological kids much after a separation. An ex boyfriend?

Hankunamatata · 27/05/2024 16:35

It's hard. I can see why many women keep distance between their boyfirends and children.

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