It was a very long battle as you may be able to tell but she did end up moving on. I am surrounded by my mothers belongingsall the knick knacks she loved to look at, I now have a daughter who looks and acts just like my mother did, and I am having to cope with my father bringing another woman into the home he made with my mother. Thats your decision. You have been. I WAS SO RELIEVED!! But it seems that for right now, what makes him feel better is pushing our family apart. Which of course makes you feel awful.This continued throughout their relationship. It went on for a bit. Fast forward a couple of years Today (Sunday April 17, 2016) I MARRY my awesome girlfriend that I met on that bike ride. Thanks again for sharing. Wait. I just dont know what to do. Its not my job to maintain her. It is very sad, but after 2 and half years I havent been able to talk to them more than 2 times, they were reluctant to meet me.I believe that I am a good, caring person who loves their father and only want the best for them, if they only will give me a chance. My understanding of caring has broadened over the last year with this pandemic. She says he is trying to turn her into my mom. I found out that life wasnt over, that I could laugh again, that I could feel almost like the happy person that I have always been, and that it was a possibility that I could be happy again with someone else. With 48, mom's still young , too, young enough to get a job. After all this time he is good and angry about the way I am treated in order for my father to maintain good relations with this unworthy woman. It was profoundly lonely and its not just the loss of intimicy, its more then that. We are fine with him being with her, but cant handle her visiting in my mother-in-laws home sitting in her chair. Here's what I learned through the pain, and what I hope to share with others. I wish my dad was here today. I constantly encourage him to keep a relationship with them, I dont want him to separate from them. And then a few days later, I come home and he invites her without my permission to join us and my friends at a restaurant with live music. They were true soulmates. I realize that you cant always make everyone happy and eventually you have to be in charge of your own happiness, but it is important to talk with those close to you and try to understand what they are feeling and also the reverse, have the children try and understand what the spouse is feeling. If Dad has been in the Military, you can get up to 30 hrs Free of Caregiver help. My dad had threated to leave her a few weeks after this, she begged shed change and she told me TO BACK OFF IF I WANT MY FATHER HAPPY i did. One of the best gifts you can give your mother is patience and understanding, Oh and one more thing, on top of all this he continues to traumatized me by giving my moms and grandmas car to this lady to drive and she even uses my moms dresser and this just is so wrong I want to die sometimes to make it stop. Time moved on. IM AM SO ANGRY I GO VERY SOMTHINGS,I FEEL I HAVE LOST MY DAD ,I CANNOT GIVE MY BLESSINGS,BEFORE MY MUM DIED SHE TOLD ME DAD HIT HER WHEN HE DIDNT GET SEX,I THOUGHT SHE MENT WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG BUT HE HAS TOLD ME THINGS? As I said, she so pushy and it was just too much too soon. Well, he gets back from the phillipines and just a few months later he lets me know that he is starting the process which takes 4-8 months for her and her two year old son to come here, and that they are going to get married. What do you guys think? This has got to be very tough for you. I was speechless. I recall one of them telling my mom he was dead upon their arrival. What I would do is to call your dad and tell him you would like to sit down and talk to him alone. I could never look myself in the mirror and feel good about it as a woman, a mother or person. As I said, they have a strange relationship. I cant lie to my dad about my feelings so I just tell him how it is. I would make sure to talk about my My kids were. Dads drinking and acting like a nut with this woman. I dont agree with certain behavior of some of the parents: comments about physical description, lovey dovey demonstration in front of your family, this thing has to be deal with at the moment that they occur or soon after. She has posted it on her Facebook, and texted my Dad about it. This came out of the blue, as I had just seen him several months prior and there was NO mention of him ever wanting to get back into the dating pool. Alex's oldest son, 26-year-old Buster, was not killed alongside his mother and younger brother, and the Netflix docuseries doesn't explain where he was when his loved My father was really respectful. When driving back from hospital the other week he asked who would be taking him back the following day. And on top of this, if you actually read everyones comments, most of these people want the parent to be happy, but they are just not ready to meet their parents new friend. So I guess that is the short version of my story. I know its not easy i honestly dont know how it ever could be cause lets face it we want our mom and dads together but who is anyone else to say when its right? NTA. I just feel so uneasy with herlike she is hiding something really big and I just cant put my finger on itchalk it up to resentment as this article says or jealousy or whatever, I just cant get over it. My mother passed away in May 2012 after a five-year battle with brain cancer. When I asked if they were planning to marry I was told it was none of my business. Many thanks. My dad does not see any of that and trust this woman who can barely put three words in English together without looking in a dictionary. Although both countries are going through economic difficulties if you are able to work and are not reliant on welfare there is in general a higher standard of living in the U.S. But Im still reeling over a set of events that happened this last Christmas, our first without my Mother-in-law. Well, that is not exactly true. When I arrived she was there crying incessantly like a long suffering wife. Which Im so mad at him for.he wont even let me have things that were my mothers, meanwhile bringing someone into the house she lived in to walk upon my moms things. He insists these are mutual decisions but aquiescence is not the same as agreement. In the summer, I helped him clean out my moms clothes. Inside is immaculate. My parents did everything with my husband and I. PERFECT example of entitlement in this societyME ME ME, and Im not talkin about me. It is just the innocent acceptance of a child (even as an adult) that the parents job is to love and protect his child is irrevocably shattered. Please Open the Door and the path to a renew relationship, to a new future together as a family. We took care of our spouses at home, tube feeding, hospice, hospital visits, radiation therapy and chemotherapies. My momma lost a long battle with lung cancer, and her death hit me the hardest in the family. Because I was faced with a totally insensitive and unkind woman who barged in without the slightest sympathy or care for the family or me as a 13 year old living at home I blamed her more than I ought to have done. You are married and have a child. She could care less. Let go. He said, Absolutely not. My phone bill alone is 129. I think part of it, for me, is that I feel like if I accept my dad having a new woman in his life, I am being disloyal to my mom. Its been five months since she passed but I knew for nearly a year that she was going to die, it was a matter of time and that was that. My parents were marred for 30 plus years. My sister, brother, and I only were told one month before she passed that my Mom was going to die. Even my 18 year old daughter says about her granddad, Hea acting like a teenage who just broke up with his girlfriend and is in a rebound relationship. Only, his girlfriend was his wife for 54+ years. Im 29 ok, my dad and mom were living with my moms mom in her house of 50years. We loved my father very very much. I later learned she did not want me to come around. Im going insane, and waste all day being unproductive as I think about how unfair and how much I hate her. Unless you are an orphan or have exiled yourself from your family, your choices do have an impact on family at all ages. I gave them space and just pleasent with her thats it. They are not together because hes too proud to say hes lonely and she doesnt want her freedom to go out curtailed by someone who is not as fast and agile as he once was. Four months ago, my mother died unexpectedly and suddenly at 53. Their union spanned 30 years and they have an adult child. It doenst matter. He had made plans to go out with a group of people and asked what I thought he should do I think he was nervous. Is she my cup of tea? So in my moms house, surrounded by her beautiful knick-knacks, is this woman with no job, no prospects (she seems a little brain damaged), and no sign of getting better. I cant pretend to like someone. I know it is 2017 now, and I too have lost my mother and have a 76 year old father who was comforted by a lady 10 years older than I and 10 younger than he, but no one can really understand the pain that comes in seeing your father with another woman after 55 years of marriage. I tried to suppress my feelings after my mother passed away and it fucked me over for 2 years, (cycles of depression and survivor's guilt). Trebalo bi da konsultujete svog lekara pre poetka primene bilo kog preparata, kao i da ga obavestite ukoliko neki preparat ve koristite. If love is measured in sacrifice then she despises him. I suspect he was dating again within a year after my mom died. Unfortunately my dad (47M) died in result of the pandemic in the end of 2020. ET (Eastern Time) Monday to Friday, or between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. I'm very sorry for your loss. Ive accepted that its okay to miss my dad deeply, and to be sorrowful that I didn't have a better relationship with him earlier in life. But he has for the most part been very respectful for my feelings so I have returned the favor. We both live right next door to Dads old home place. I think it is true to say,from my experience, that when loss is handled with gross insensitivity the impact of that causes a person not to trust the perpetrator again. My mom passed away in October of 2010 after a six-month battle with lung cancer. I also go everynight after work and cook dinner. The only people that truly understand us are people that have experienced this like us. He makes me smile again! In time, you will learn to work around it and not let it absorb you and suck you up. I implore you do this one unselfish thing for your children as honouring your late spouse or partner. i lost it. Then I checked his texts on my moms phone and all evidence points to them being intimately involved. I sometimes try to step back and look at both sides. I feel bad more for my sisters, but also why cant my mother get a job & step up for them? I was very honest with him about my feelings as well, talking about how upset it makes me that neither of my parents will be around to see me get married, or have children, things like that. It eats away at me every single day. For the price of a large house in the U.S you could get a tiny place over in the U.K You just get more bang for your buck in America. No good way to treat it. These adult kids need to mind their own businessget a life, get a job>support their self. It looked as though he was sleeping, but closer inspection showed white foam dripping from his blue lips. I supported him finding companionship. According to him, he had already grieved over her and had moved on. So I would be at the hospital Day and night, until my Dad and I took shifts. i lost a lot of friends because I didn't want to be a mess around them but I learned later they didn't mind if i broke down in front of them they still enjoyed the times when I wasn't sad and understood why i was sad. PRIOR TO MY MUM HAD DIED MY BROTHER MOVED IN AND MARRIED A PHILLPINE Shame on you to the end of time. His response about this has been so offensive that is has resulted in some family members wanting to not have any further contact with him. And the whole time he was here, he was watching the clock and couldnt wait to leave to get back to her. The woman who he choose to date knew the family and was not liked by mother. You didn't agree to pay for her to be a SAHM. Stage one: denial. I lost my mother almost a year ago (Feb. 2008) and my father started spending time with an old friend from his past, 8 months later. I cant respect someone who would be messing around while their spouse of many years is suffering. I put him off saying how about a rain check. She also tried to tell me that her and my mom were friends yet I know my mom did not care for her, and if thats a friend who needs enemies. This woman is playing him, I feel sure. I lost my wife after a sudden, five-month illness. We met when I was 17 and we had been together for 42 years. I loved her completely. Grief is a t So that is the short version of my story. I believe in family values. I think he can now begin to start processing his grief over my moms death (we have just now passed the three month mark since her funeral.) However dont be mad at him for having a friend. She was very reluctant to do this at first, but finally caved after a year or so. Unfortunately she has a big drinking problem, and after 9 yrs together my father couldnt support this any longer. And though Im not a psychiatrist or counselorand while mourning takes on different forms for everyoneI wanted to share what brought me comfort. Im 29 ok, my dad and mom were living with my moms mom in her house of 50years. She visits or picks him up if it suits her. I asked where is this all coming from he says he has the need for speed. His whole personality has changed and I just cant adjust to it. Not only was he a preeminent scholar of rock music from 1968-1974, but some of our best memories together were spent on the road. Then I remember my mom saying the second wife always gets treated better after several of her friends husbands remarried after losing their spouse. You do not wake up one day and say Oops Ive fallen in love. There is a train and buses and a taxi driver who lives 2 doors down from my father. My mom has lived on her own since my dad died in 2017, first in a seniors retirement community, now in her own condo. My dad said he could come because he would have to bring his girlfriend. His parents (mom and stepdad) were married for 25 years. Generally it's possible that he was very shut down and i know this summer. I do hope you have found some peace ? but she is an active participant in the redesign. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. My dad dedicated his life to taking care of our family. My mother died from Leukemia in 2004, a year later I was shocked to find out my father was dating so soon. I have tried to explain to Dad that I am not comfortable with this but he seems to not care. She is so insecure within herself, she doesnt feel that a daughter should have a relationship with her Father. Your children are there, but they are not there. Unfortunately, due to the selfishness of the woman concerned, my sister and I are the ones looking after my father. she brushed it off bc due to the market she didnt think wed get a place we could afford..but then she received a letter in the mail a week or so later stating she was losing 600 a month due to my middle sister turning 18, she came storming into my room demanding my husband & I start paying what shed be losing monthly to her in rent. I explained that feeling to my step-dad, and told him he is immediately to call me if he thinks he's going down that path. Dear Susan Musselwhite, I hear you and I get it. I remind myself daily that he doesnt want to be alone and that he is insecure. With more time for our family to grieve and to have our dad, I think we would have had a much easier time accepting his new wife. Dont you want them to be happy? Regardless of all my feelings though, a daughter cannot fill all the emptiness that is felt. You may put on a brave face but he ought to know that that is not the same as accepting her. At this time of our lives we can make mistakes with relationships because we dont have the tools, awareness, and you become almost like a teenager, nave in some ways, excited about anything new, and different. When you meet alone, you should tell him how you feel excluded from his life & how hurt and sad you are. I talked to him last night and he lets me know that he is already seeing someone. My stomach was sick the whole hour I was there and when I left I cried for a long time. Sometime in your life, your own children may be going thru the same experiences that you are going right now. Personally, I want to punch this person in the face, and as for my dad, I feel like I dont even know him. Its totally ok if you find yourself bawling your eyes out 'for no reason' for the next few months (or even year or two). Within a few weeks after losing my Mom, my father started talking with women online for friendship and companionship. I felt at one point I could not cope. She had to go to AT&T and get my dad taken off of our cell phone plan, and they kept transferring her to other people and she kept having to explain what had happenedI was really upset that they put her through that; it seemed so insensitive. I never heard my Dad talk about my mother that way not the nasty remarks but simply talk about her beauty. My mother died in 2009. When your spouse is dying slowly, your grief process begins so much earlier then anyone around because you know where things will end and a part of you prays for it to end soon for her and for the selfish reason that caring for a dying spouse drains you in a way that you cant possibly imagine and I already watched a younger brother die from leukemia at the age of 23. Two years is not nearly as long as many people might think when it relates to the loss of a loved one. I understand that, but it was still entirely too soon when he began a relationship months later, she moved into our house and slept on my moms side of the bed less than 6 months after my moms death, they were quickly engaged and married less than 20 months after my mom had died. Worse still, he is in ICU with a poor prognosis and I am expected to defer to her. But for right now I am ok with at least being able to see my father periodically and trying. So now my dad takes it out on me. X. By June of this year, he went on a family trip of hers, to visit her nieces college graduation?! Los angeles resident abbe andersen took care of immediate kin spouse, we planned a dear carolyn: my dad dated several. I simply could not process the situation. Knowing I cannot change the situation I have sometimes asked my husband to hold up a sofa cushion while I give it a good punch! My dad does not spend Christmas or Christmas Eve with his family. It hit the mark with me. We suffered with them too as well as all the family members. Your mom sounds like someone who tries very hard to be self-sufficient - which means you may not know the extent to which she relied on your dad. Im a good mother a little over protective but i mean well and they know it and love me regardless. I now had to take care of my moms mom who had dementia in her home while my dad is busy in the first stages of a love relationship right after my mom died in our house. It is almost like two deaths in one. Thank you. What he fails to see and I can say from experience is that he is inflicting untold damage on his relationships with his daughters. What are our responsibilities towards the funeral? Every day I cant help but wish my mom were here. My sister feels the relationship started way before we found out about it. And perhaps he will be aware of his insensitivity to you in addressing this lady by calling her Angel, etc. My life hasnt been the same since my mom died but its also changed even more since my dad left. She doesnt want another master in his life. Our 5 kids (ages 20, 21, 22, 23 and 25) have embraced this new life of ours with open arms. There are still times I am so angry at him for choosing his girlfriend, over his family. That is what mom wanted and he has failed miserably in the 6 months since her death. He sent them to an auction house. She would try to hug me which I finally just had to ask her to stop doing. I mean moms been gone for 5 months now and I have to meet the new misses? She had her own house but sold it. What we find offensive is Our kids are simply amazing, they truly are. Its April now and my dad has a new girlfriend he wants me to meetwow. He may try to replace your mother in his life with anotherbut after that many years of marriage, he will never be able to. I wont even go into the details of how he is doing EVERYTHING for this woman that my mom always wanted him to do and he didnt. The love that you have for your spouse and your children will never change. SInce then, my dad aquired another lady. I am sorry that you are going through this. It happened to soon.. we basically lost our dad (to his live in girlfriend) just months after losing our mom. Sometimes she doesnt see him for 3 weeks at a time. I cant say what it is that makes parents cast off their responsibilities towards those left behind but this website is a testament to the fact that they do. In the summer, they went on an extended vacation. Then in August, he went to Cabo with her sisters and family. That was their way of caring for her. Should I try to truly deeply understand them more? My father has now moved in with his girlfriend and lives in her house. My parents were married 60 years. I read every comment on this page and for those that are in the same or similar situations I feel your sadness, anger, and pain. He just told me that he wants me to call her or come by to wish her a Happy Mothers day, he says she wants to be a mother to me. Whatever it may be, it is important to remember that there is a purpose for each person who enters and exits your life. The key here is I believe, she has abused him into such a state that he can no longer think for himself for fear of being alone. Now a word to those of you that think your dad or your mom or whoever is moving on too soon, and cite for evidence it has only been 2 years, or 5 months, or 1 year, or whatever. It seems more like she is having a party instead of respecting my fathers memory. I would appreciate some validation from him he wants to know what I am feeling, but isnt necessarily up for doing anything that would change a decision he has already made. Sad that it came to an end, but we will go on living and hope that he is happy from afar. I was a faithful husband and am a responsible, loving father, but I after burying a brother and a wife, I know that life is too precious to waste. We were married for 22 years and have many happy memories to keep. I believe in family values. And i think its to soon it really makes my stomach upset when i hear her name or see her with my dad. Finally, we had a 3 hour discussion where I was able to say how I felt about everything for the past 8 years. True I have never lost a husband so I cant judge. I would even approve of someone who is from our church- not some stranger who feels comfortable enough to fly over on a whim to visit an online friend or whatever so quickly. She is a horrible woman. I'm really really close with my dad, so I can't imagine how you're doing right now. Are you my twin? 20 minutes into our meeting she seemed stoned, or drunk. However, my moms health took a turn for the worse. Told my parents to come here and live at not charge except maintenance and taxes on house , and that they could stay there forever. Heather asks for advice: In November, it will be two years since my mother died after a prolonged illness. After my mother died seven years ago at 84, my father didnt want to live in their house alone. I will never tell them their feelings dont matter. I am a 41 yr old widower, father of three kids, daughter 8 and twin 6 yr. old boys, who lost his wife of 11 years, the last five she was sick and dying of colon cancer. 2. Welcome to r/AmITheAsshole. With us not around all the time, I'm worried that she just won't be eating. Its dragging me down, and I know things can be so much worse but I cant imagine him marrying this woman and her living among my mothers things, and even moreso, putting her own personal touch on this house. Where is her income? Her daughter came to stay when she was in hospital and then had a falling out with her mother over something. He resented being taken out for visits almost as if he felt we were at fault. Rather than gently explaining that I was ready to talk, I lashed out at my loved ones, accusing them of being forgetful, when really, they were just trying to respect my wishes. I stumbled on this website in hopes of finding someone going through a similar situation. I really feel sorry for the women these men dateits really not so much about that particular woman, believe me, they dont need to feel special, these men are lonely and want someone with a PULSE. We offered to meet as a family. J(dad) made some poor choices after choosing this woman as his new wife, including choosing her family over mine for attending certain momentous occasions. Giggling and judging other people to make themselves feel superior. Still, I feel like the pressures of my fathers new family are drawing him rapidly away from us. From this I feel like I have been able to step back and gain some insight, and this insight has brought me some healing and clarity. However, this woman is a fair weather friend and has proved to the world her worthlessness. Try to work it out: In the end, even paying a renter or nonpaying guest to go away might be faster and cheaper than trying to evict him. . As women, we certainly know that men and women think & act totally different from one another. Would I really want to bring more pain to the family and use the excuse that he deserves to be happy as if the girlfriend is the only way a man of 76 could be happy? Life is very short and fleeting so take a deep breath and shine your moms light for her. Ellen started telling me she loved me. At the time she barely knew me as I had just been an acquaintance in the past! I once believed for a while she loved him rather than he was useful to her but unfortunately I no longer can receive solace from this idea. However, the engagement and upcoming wedding (December 1st!!) it is the next normal step of a solid relationship. Hi Meg, When my wife shot herself, I felt abandoned; I thought I would never be able to trust anyone again, especially a woman. This made my life about 1000x worse to make a long story short, the storm passed and my dad and Is relationship had gotten better over the two and a half years since my mommas passing, and thats what she wouldve wanted. If your dating this man is just that going to dinner, catching a movie, and someone to confide in. This is exactly how I am feeling right now. My friend arrived to hear her say Well cant she just call a garage instead of bothering us. Never mind that she had been doing my father the favour by giving me the lift in the first place. However, his wife continues to feel I havent accepted her into the family and that I am disrespectful towards her. i feel as this home has nothing more to offer me and i should just leave it as soon as i can. Im dealing with this right now and still havent confronted my dad about how upset I am by all of this. I love my dad and he is a great dad but hes not handling this well and hes a crappy husband. (I'm 23, if that counts for anything.) Virginia I can really relate to a lot of what you wrote. He was alright. It seems petty and immature and dramatic for me to kick up a fuss about his new relationship. The gossiping and meddling that has started to take place- my dads girlfriend is at the center of all the drama. KNOW HE HAS TAKEN DAD TO THE PHILIPINES ,THROUGH COMMETS MY DAD SAYS HES HAVING SEX WITH GOD KNOWS WHO,HE TELLS ME IT STILL WORKS.NOT WHAT A DAUGHTER WONTS TO HERE? A few times between lockdowns, I would visit with her and just sit on the couch beside her watching along with her. The AC has only one mother, so there could never be a threat. She may start getting rid of. Some of you expressed concern about the relationships being too soon, and I agree with some of you, but specially men that depended completely n their wives, have been married for a long time, dont want to be alone. I believe that a photo of a late husband or wife has a place in a new home. We had no choice in this. Her name is not on the account, but mine is! He insists on talking about this woman non-stop and wants our families (including several grandchildren aged 8 to 14) to spend time with her. And not ever having one now he wants one. I should have known. You may also want to suggest group therapy for her, if she is open to it. But I feel myself being divided from my dad and a slap in the face to my Mom if there is something going on. If anyone wants to talk who is going through or has been through the same thing email me la49013p@pace.edu. Just four months ago I watched as my 28 year old sister cried because my Dad wanted to spend time with his girlfriend instead of her.
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