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Advice on sticky sit pleeeease!(long-ish)

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mjp185 · 20/09/2005 23:13

OK here goes!
DS1 has just turned 6. DH is not the BF but we have been together since DS1 was 4 months old. BF lives 80 odd miles away and through my insistance ahs seen DS1 regularly, every other w/end for either 1 day or overnight. He volountarily pays maintenance monthly. Here is the tricky bit, DS1 calls BF by his christian name as this just happened naturally, he started calling DH daddy as soon as he could speak, which I did not encourage but had prob picked it up from childminder/other children.BF has been ok with DS1 calling my DH daddy, and he knows no different, BF is a 'big friend' to him. Prob is BF got married 12 months ago and things have started going pear shaped. He wants me to sign a parental responsibility aggreement which I am not prepared to do as we had discussed it and aggreed that DH should have PR but that it wasn't necessary for BF as didn't see him enough to warrant it. I have involved BF in descisions about school and what DS1 does to an extent. BF parents are now insisting they are called nannie and grandad and even sent a b/day card with grandson splattered all over it to the house, which they have never done before. BF has hinted that he wants DS1 to know the 'TRUTH'. We had thought that he would work it out at some point and that DS1 would ask us for an explanation, we felt that if/when he did this we could be sure he was old enough to understand. BF and I have never lived togaether as a family either. A few weeks ago, BF had asked to see DS1 for w/end, initially I had said yes but DS1 was then prize pain in the backside, so I withdrew the 'treat' of going to See his big friend! Then got huge abuse, I was apparently denying him his rights to see his BF, tried to expl that 6 yr old didn't see it like that, threats of court action for access and PR ensued. DS1 has the devil in him when returning from w/end with BF and its really disruptive to our lives at the moment. DH and I have another son who is 3 and as far as DS1 is concerned has a straight forward nuclear(?)family, should I tell him, and when. Can I be legally forced to tell him, what BF family tell him. Have panic attacks sometimes thinkin about it, please help, even just moral support, I feel like I have tried to keep BF happy, but my priority is DS1 , he has just started back at school and BF wants him this w/end and I am too scared to say no, but it really upsets our routine and he'll be shattered on Monday morn for school!!!!!!!!!!ARGHHHH

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steffee · 20/09/2005 23:30

I think you should tell him, before BF does if nothing else.

I'm going through a similar situation in that ds1 is not dh biologically and somehow ds1 is now almost 5 without knowing the truth and I'm dreading telling him, though I know I have to soon. He doesn't see his BF at all, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I understand your situation and best of luck in finding the right way to tell him, if you decide to do that.

mjp185 · 20/09/2005 23:37

Thanks Steffee!. Also DH I think would like to adopt DS1 but am terrified of all the legal stuff. Am going to get glass of wine and try and get some sleep tonight as this has really started to affect me emotionally.

Bring on the nightmares!!!!

xx

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mjp185 · 21/09/2005 08:00

Also I don't really want to tell him as I think it would 'blow the bottom out of his world' and make him insecure, I don't want it to upset school either as he is doing so well!

If I do exp now then BF has got what he wants also, which benefits him but don't see how its going to benefit DS1,

BOY IS MY BRAIN SCRAMBLED
No wine in fridge last night either!!!!

Steffee do you really need to tell at all/

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steffee · 21/09/2005 11:06

I don't know, it's entirely up to you.

It's just that these things have a habit of coming out when you least expect it, e.g. a doctor might ask you one day if your ds1 is your dh's biological child, with your ds1 in the room, or one of your family members might let it slip...

If your ds1 finds out when he's a teenager or even much older for example, he might not take it very well.

Those are my reasons for not keeping it a secret (though I have without meaning to), and also because everyone has a right to know where they come from.

If your dh does adopt him, you could just tell him that his 'big friend' and you made him (I don't know how much he knows about where babies come from) but that your dh is his 'daddy' as he loves him and looks after him. That's my plan, not sure how much will be understood.

Good luck in deciding, I can understand the stress you must be under!

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