I hope I worded it correctly, but my mom and step-dad were married for 20 years and just got divorced about a year ago give or take. As if that new dynamic is weird enough - now my mom is actively dating... And she's been with 4 different dudes over the course of about 6 months and feels the need to send me pictures of her with each guy whenever there's a new one. And always some form of the same text "This is ________, he's such a good guy. I'm still dealing with abandonment issues and they come up from time to time but he's such a good guy and processes it with me. Who knows where it will go". LITERALLY EVERY TIME THE SAME MESSAGE AND PHOTOS! Them hugging and kissing and shit. It's weird!
Now she's an adult and can do whatever she wants. Irrespective of how I feel, she has to live her own life and process it however she feels best. That being said, it doesn't take away from how gd weird it is or how I feel about the fact that she's pogo-sticking from one guy to another to another to another. If she told me she felt healed and was dating in that state of mind and these relationships just happened to fall through cause life is like that then I'd feel less uncomfortable about it. But the fact that she always brings up healing and insecurities and dealing with being "abandoned" (which don't get me started on that word), leads me to think she absolutely shouldn't be dating yet.
Has anybody else gone through this? What do you think? Those that are on the other end of this weird... Mid-life crisis, post-divorce parent dating thing... Am I looking at this weird? Did you have conversations about these discomforts with your parents or did you just leave them be? LMK!