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Supporting alienated dh

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ladytremaineswig · 11/06/2020 16:41

Any advice on how I can support dh? We've been together about 5 years. Basically his two teenage kids took a dislike from the start and things have always been hard. Over the years they made a few accusations of things I'd supposedly done that were either hysterical exaggerations or just grossly untrue. They mostly dropped these quite quick but it was upsetting. I think really they're still very upset their parents are not together. It came to a head when they issued him with an ultimatum a few weeks ago that he either got rid of me or they moved back full time with their mother. They don't really have any concrete reasons at this point other than I don't talk to them despite me trying to engage in conversation with them but being shut down with grunts and one word answers. I've had numerous heart to hearts with them when I thought I'd made in roads but they just seem determined not to like me. Obviously he refused to 'get rid' of me. We love each other plus have a young dc together. They've since gone to live with their mother full time. DH calls and texts and has asked them to meet outside for walks etc but they only reply to ask for money. They've accused him of not being interested in them since he married me but in reality I've spent a lot of nights alone while he was dad's taxi even when they were supposed to be at their mothers, loads of extra curricular, help with homework, entertaining their friends etc. All the stuff dads are supposed to do. He is really depressed and I feel awful but helpless to really do anything to help him.

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Teenangels · 13/06/2020 08:16

I still would disappear my partner knows that I will not be around people that are toxic towards me.
I really do not understand why there is so much hate my kids father was useless but I have never tried to fill my kids heads with toxic bile and I certainly have never been rude about his partner and nor would I want me kids to carry all that hate around.

pastel01 · 13/06/2020 12:07

I’ve gone through similar and it’s just awful so I can sympathise. What I found is everyone has sympathy for the parent it’s happening to and the child and you tend to get lost in it all when you’re probably hurting just as much

ladytremaineswig · 13/06/2020 17:56

Thanks for all the messages of support. Tbh I think it will be never ending. Dh is now being blackmailed by the eldest to have all the furniture from his room, including bed, desk and wardrobe sent over to his mothers house because of course the stuff Dh has bought over the years is nicer. I'm trying to remain impartial but really I think this is C as F

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krankykittykat · 13/06/2020 21:50

His eldest is an adult and if they want their furniture moving over tell them to hire a van and collect it.

user1486915549 · 14/06/2020 10:56

Been there many years ago
DH had been divorced 7 years when I met him but I was hated and blamed by SD. In the end years later I told her the truth, that her mother had left my DH and gone back to her previous boyfriend taking my baby SD with her
Sometimes we overprotect SC and allow them to live a lie.
I can’t blame her mother either. She never bad mouthed us and didn’t really understand the hate.
Eventually as an adult my SD had therapy and admitted to her dad that all the outrageous things she claimed I had said and done over the years were untrue
When DH told me I thought......yeah, I know that !
Your DH needs to have your back
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Motherlandismylife · 15/06/2020 14:58

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