Hi everyone. Haven’t written on here in such a long time so please be kind. I have a 6 year old little boy who me and his child’s father split amicably in 2022 and have always been really respectful of each other. He’s finally got a new partner who has two children and they’re on their first holiday as a family. I am single and obviously am wondering if this is the reason I feel worse about everything! The new woman is lovely however she has stepped on my ‘mum toes’ in my personal opinion a few times. I’m really struggling with being away from him. He doesn’t really want to talk to me on FaceTime which is so unlike him and I’m having the panic realisation that maybe he’s got his ‘happy family unit’. I don’t have a lot of spare money so I can’t take him away as often or do nice things all the time like they can as they both have high paying jobs. I am taking him to Disneyland next week, he had already taken him away in April yet managed to also book this last minute which has definitely took away from Disneyland..
I don’t know what to do. I don’t want my son to think I’m clingy or co dependent on him, but obviously to some extent I am. I feel so replaceable and insecure.. I have a therapist due to other life situations that happened so I discuss this regularly. I just need other like minded mums to let me know it’s okay or if there’s anything I can do to make it better. I’m also super positive with him about it but it’s hard.