Mother’s Day drama
mother's day for ME is a day I can celebrate my village. I became a full-time single mom a year ago. I have so many women in my life that have helped me this last year physically and emotionally. two in particular have become bonus aunties to my babies and have been there for every hard moment, depressed phone call, ball games, disney trips, exciting news, etc. so anyways...
I posted on FB this sappy post loving on the two of them at 7am on mothers day. I couldn't have made it through the last year as a mom without them. Well, apparently that pissed off my dad. why? who knows because he never actually said words to me. just angry reacted to my post. but probably because I didn't include my mother...
did it have anything to do with her? no. it was about the two best friends who stepped up this past year.
I texted her separately that morning. there was a 1 hour time zone difference where she was at so I waited until I knew she was awake and messaged her before church started.
My mom and I are not close.
she and my father have a weird obsession with my niece. it's like she's their own child. Even my kids have picked up on this. They want to spend time with their grandparents WITHOUT the niece and have stopped asking to go over there because she is always involved.
I've brought it up to them and I'm always painted like the villain. I'm trying to keep my children happy and healthy and being a second option is not doing that.
because of this, we don't see them much anymore, for my mental health as well as my tiny humans. my father can't stand when I call them out on their BS. But when people OUTSIDE of our family is recognizing the neglect my kids get from them, that's sad. so i just don't interact with them now unless necessary.
i've considered just putting him on "restricted" on fb because I just dont have it in me to deal with his bs anymore.
anyways, i think I just needed to vent <3