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Dd doesn't like my new boyfriend

349 replies

wonderingwendy · 02/06/2014 18:40

What can I or he do to resolve this?
We have been dating for six months and about a month ago he came over to for a quick hello meet and greet.boys really warmed to him (16&7yrs) but dd didn't.
She has been awful when he pops in even though he tries hard to engage with her.i get alot of nasty comments via the Internet whilst he is here and then when he goes its tears , , comments and I get the silent treatment.
She is 13yrs
Any ideas?

OP posts:
Fairylea · 05/06/2014 18:26

wonderingwendyMon 19-May-14 17:26:52

taking risks here
my boyfriend is 20 yrs older than me and is pretty sure yrs of fertility treatment with past partner that he is infertile (low sperm count and low mobility?)
condoms give me thrush and pill and anything containing hormones dont agree with me so we use the withdrawal method. very very silly !
nagging thoughts about getting a screening done at the g.u.m clinic

Meeeep · 05/06/2014 18:27

He's a catch eh!

DrawingsAndPuzzles · 05/06/2014 18:31

Wow Shock

expatinscotland · 05/06/2014 18:34

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Waltermittythesequel · 05/06/2014 18:36

Ffs. She has to be on a wind up!

expatinscotland · 05/06/2014 18:38

Sadly, I know a couple of people like this.

basgetti · 05/06/2014 18:45

These type of threads anger me so much. I know two people like this in real life, one risked residency of her DC due to the lowlife she brought into the home. Her daughter was scared of him. I don't see her anymore but last I heard she was still with him and the daughter was spending most of her time with her Dad now. She's 5.

teaandthorazine · 05/06/2014 18:48

Op, three weeks ago you started a thread asking how to introduce your new boyfriend to your kids

EVERYONE on that thread said it was too early and you were moving too fast. EVERYONE.

Yes, I'm judging. Damn right I'm judging.

NickiFury · 05/06/2014 18:52

I'm 100% unsurprised by recent revelations tbh and I didn't search my self. There was just clear indications in the OP's posts that there was more going on.

Her posting style reminds me very much of a previously banned poster who was equally self centred and seemingly unaware of what a fuckwit she was and how damaging her behaviour was towards her children but other details aren't the same.

I'm even more astounded by the fact that one or two posters have launched into such a staunch defence of the OP and her frankly ridiculous and damaging behaviour.

CinnabarRed · 05/06/2014 19:18

Janitor-lover?

NickiFury · 05/06/2014 19:23

I was actually thinking of TLES.

flippinada · 05/06/2014 19:30

I had some sympathy for the op until I read the recent updates. Poor kids. This is a car crash of a situation, isn't it.

NickiFury · 05/06/2014 19:33

Tbh as soon as I read the on Skype all day and he's hacked off about dd's opinions I knew this was a big mess. I have known doughnuts like this who drop everything for a bit of male attention and the giggling on their mobile or skype all day seems to be a common denominator.

Waltermittythesequel · 05/06/2014 19:34

I'm even more astounded by the fact that one or two posters have launched into such a staunch defence of the OP and her frankly ridiculous and damaging behaviour

This times a million

expatinscotland · 05/06/2014 19:38

Then they always 'fall pregnant' by these twats.

SelectAUserName · 05/06/2014 19:39

Oh dear. That puts a different slant on things.

That poor, poor 13yo girl :(

flippinada · 05/06/2014 19:41

No, he doesn't sound great does he.

And yes, I've known women like that too. It never ends well.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/06/2014 19:46

Doubt the OP will be coming back to the thread, somehow Hmm

What a shame it turned out like this, and that this particular child seems to be in such an appalling situation

Still believe balance is needed in these relationhips, though ... even if this one's a waster

youmakemydreams · 05/06/2014 19:47

Sadly I know someone that could have written a post like this with all the back story too.

I did a search after everyone else and can see the OP had wanted to leave her dh for a looooong time before it happened but that is no excuse for what she is doing to her dd. I really feel for the poor angry, confused child in all of this.

WilsonFrickett · 05/06/2014 21:50

Bloody hell. I know searching and sharing isn't the done thing but jesus wept op. what are you on?

You need to disconnect your Internet for 6 months op and concentrate on what's happening in your own home rather than giggling away on Skype with your other man and seeking validation for your frankly appalling choices on MN.

DustBunnyFarmer · 05/06/2014 22:55

This isn't the same OP with teenage kids who was dead keen on dating a sex offender, is it?

differentnameforthis · 05/06/2014 23:41

My DD was very upset and concerned that she could not have a chocolate finger thsi morning. I was dismissive. Hey ho.

The two things are NOT the same at all & you know it.

I have been this child, granted a couple of years older, only my mum didn't wait till my dad left & she had an affair instead. One that I caught her at. Dad left, new man moved in that night. I didn't hate him, but I resented the hell out of them both because I wasn't given the space & time to come to terms with my dad leaving, my mother having an affair & my having found her at it.

As an adult, when you refuse to put your child first in such circumstances, you cannot be too shocked if said child starts to feel pushed out, inadequate, upset.

Child need time to process things, just because the op wasn't mentally in her awful marriage for some time, it doesn't mean that she can just override the needs & feelings of her child.

The partner here is already sulking & stopped the majority of communication with op. The op admitted that she spends all day, every day on skype (which conveniently went down to school hours on her being pulled up on it) & the man seems happy to encroach upon said daughters space by telling the op that she shouldn't change anything. What kind of adult dismisses a child like that? One that doesn't give a damn!

And it makes me wonder if he would feel her feelings & boundaries are so unimportant if he did eventually move in with them.

He doesn't want a 13yr old dictating to his girlfriend, yet HE is happy to do it? Hmm

the OP does need to address her DD's real upset over the breakup of her family. Which is what everyone is saying.

That doesn't mean not dating, it doesn't mean keeping her BF a secret Again, that is what we are saying.

and it doesn't mean taking seriously every complaint of her DD about her BF. I would say it is pretty fucking important to take a teens concerns over her bf seriously, actually. She doesn't have to act on the all, but she DOES need to listen & she does need to help her dd process those concerns & take them away or fix them for her.

Adults decide, children need to accept. No no no & a thousand times NO!!! What if this guy is trying to work his way into ops house because he has a thing for 13yr old girls? When he starts to disregard her boundaries by walking in on her in the bathroom, or in her bedroom, should HE decide that that is what HE wants & the child accept it? You are sending out a message that adults are always in the right & to contest an adult, or their actions is wrong.

I am not saying that this is what is happening, but you cannot dismiss a child's fears & feelings because her mothers right to date is more important than her right to feel safe & comfortable in her own home. Which she doesn't, when he is around.

Meeeep · 05/06/2014 23:53

Different, well said! I despair at the fact that people need told this Hmm

brdgrl · 06/06/2014 00:02

And there we have it, folks. Massive projection, assumptions about what a child is feeling. "What if he's a pedophile" thrown in for good measure.
Absolute vilification of the OP. Searching of her history to 'discredit' her. And a great, big, smelly dose of self-righteousness. Par for the course for certain usernames.

OP, I hope you will read carefully through all the posts (spend as much time on their posting history as they have on yours!) and make a rational decision about how to manage your dating life.

NickiFury · 06/06/2014 00:19

Well to be fair they're not really "assumptions" of how this child is feeling are they? The OP has stated her dd's opinions on this herself.