As much as I understand all this, I still find it so incredibly difficult to accept him dating. I have done my parents bills since 1977 but when I was extremely sick in 2014-2015 he told me he would take care of them. And without a doubt, it will affect the lives of our children even more profoundly. My mom is extremely independent and self-sufficient (she is a program manager at her job), and it's a big shock to hear her talk the way she does, like she can't do anything without my dad. Dont expect me to be part of your relationship. dad After suffering a loss, we understand how short life is and realize that it can change in any given moment. My dad passed in 2004 and my stepmother inherited nearly all of my mothers nestegg intended for her children. My mom wanted to make sure to pass some of why her mother passed on to us, her kids. I could really use some good advice on how to deal with all this. My dad, who is almost 74, is also just realizing that he is aging and I think he is grabbing for something to make him feel young and vital again, and this new exciting relationship is doing it for him although it has broken his daughters hearts. Required fields are marked *. If your dating this man is just that going to dinner, catching a movie, and someone to confide in. What you are going through is understandably painful and confusing to you right now. Consider whether this is a kind and good person or whether you are grabbing a passing life raft. Then my dad is dad died, after someone dies. You dont state his age but he may face old age alone. While reading some of the behaviors of the GFs, I felt very bad for some of you, I understand where you are coming from.. We do not want to lose our relationship with our dad completely, and we know it would upset him not to have us in his life at all, but there is no give and take, not compromise, no willingness to try to accept our feelings. Loss impact every person in a different way and we all need to process that loss. But the way that she did it was deceitful. I still cant beleive it. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Last year I suggested that he started dating. I lost my dad who had a great relationship with me for 50+ years.. My kids had a great grandpa for 15+ years. I feel like I never really knew my father after this awful behavior. Hopefully you all got the gist of my situation. Sure, it might be well-intentioned, but it can feel empty. Its really a nightmare. So they let her and that made her happy. No doubt this will bring people to say I cant see things from the other side. What will I do? she said. We do not live together. 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. Take care of yourself first. I would say the best thing you could do is tell him very firmly that unless he changes his thought process and his ways with you and your siblings that you will have nothing else to do with him and if that is the way he wants it, then just end it there. I did because I loved him and felt so very sad for him losing mom and dealing with his own cancer. I felt guilty when I said I dont want to meet him, but since reading everyones comments I know im not an evil person for feeling that way. You are responsible to your family: you, spouse and child. What he fails to see and I can say from experience is that he is inflicting untold damage on his relationships with his daughters. I feel that the only way to achieve some kind of middle ground here, is to accept what is happening, support my Father-in-law in his happiness, and be positive for my husband and his siblings. 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? The reality that my Widower Boyfriend (WBF) was deeply involved with someone (me) other than their mother was a shock for the AC. Wow Andrea. We dont have a problem with him dating , its just who he is dating. I (23F) & my husband (24M) lived with my mom (48F) during Covid. They were true soulmates. I am glad I came across this website and Im not alone. Amen, Jodi! Make sure you take care of yourself and grieve how you need to. Also, new caveat she is now on our family plan because its cheaper, for her, and bc she dropped her phone in a toilet on accident.. The very knowledge that my dad has moved on is like losing my mother all over again on a daily basis. Stage one: denial. GQ Chief Distraction Officer was the best role I could play. Read my previous posting (number 57, on Octber 6th.). Are you my twin? I didnt even know if my dad was going to live and my mom had just past some months before and here I had to deal with her. My aunt, (my Dads sister) told him once that she would never be able to feel the same way towards Ellen that she felt towards my mom. After the services concluded, I assumed that my role was to be a constant source of funa natural assumption for a 13-year-old. You can continue to struggle against the choice your father has made, or you can seek ways to help yourself accept this new situation. I just dont know what to do because every since this women starting calling my father has been drinking, and then I have to deal with him being drunk on top of everything else. In addition to adjusting to life without parent who has died, you now have to also deal with the surviving parent/step-parents relationship choices which will surely impact you directly and in-directly. Within weeks, my father took up with a mutual friend of theirs. Try not to show anger toward your dad but approach him with kindness. If love is measured in sacrifice then she despises him. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. We had no choice in this. I have not felt more alive than when I stepped outside of mycomfort zone to do things I wouldn't have normally done. We knew he was spending time with a woman a month after Moms passing, but managed to come to terms with that somehow. People constantly comment about how incredible they really are. It will never be the same. He may try to replace your mother in his life with anotherbut after that many years of marriage, he will never be able to. My dad broke up with this woman. Ive tried ignoring it and being the bigger person always doing her dishes, then she starts moving in more on my house putting her mark everywhere and being home all day in my grandma house. Shed tell me who she had spoken with that day and what she was watching on tv. My dad said they were just cleaning, but they werent doing his office stuff, the kitchen counters and other spaces less tied to my mom. My dad died in 2006, and they had been together over 40 years. People are here looking for comfort, and you bash them. I can not understand their position. How do I cope with this? I LOST IT. She may start getting rid of. He still is helping me with money and will send me checks to help me pay for things since Im completely on my own now but the dad that I had growing up is pretty much gone. If my husband were to do the same, the thought of it makes me very sad. I have to place myself in the the shoes of a girlfriend and ask myself, would I lack class, respect or decency by tearing a family apart by my presence in the picture? If I were to write down everything he has done thats been terrible Id have a 500 page novel, it just gets worse and worse, really! For most of them its the very least they can do considering that the mother did most if not all of the work related to the children. Its a destination wedding and he has told her that he wont be able to make it because of work. I mean moms been gone for 5 months now and I have to meet the new misses? I should have known. It was because of the cancer that was growing all over her body. Seems veryselfish to me. I was 19 and it was completely unexpected. While I share certain similarities with the other posters here, Im also aware of some differences. This is a different time of your life, a different love. He really never had time to grieve her passing before he jumped up and remarried either. My dad began dating a woman about 5 or 6 months later. He makes zero effort to chat when I visit and tells me they both talk to each other all the time. If someone made that demand of you and my sisterz, you would be screaming bloody murder. It was a very long battle as you may be able to tell but she did end up moving on. Her words to me: your Dad is with me and my family now, your gonna lose your Dad, hes going to pick me over you and at my daughters wedding Im dancing with your Dad, you cant. Dad and I always had a great relationship, lunch, golf, fishing, talks on the phone. click to read more On him. She is helping us by taking care of him. I can see why I never ran into this 1st cousin. Even if she said she was she would probably change her mind. Please Open the Door and the path to a renew relationship, to a new future together as a family. However, this family that is thrown away with such callousness may be expected to jump to and pick up the slack when the new friend decides its not so much fun anymore. I lost my mother and need my father. People spend more time debating which car they will buy than Is this person suitable or are they just making themselves available?. My parents were married 60 years. Reading through the different experiences that people have shared on this website has been a little helpful. This has been very therapeutic for me. My heart eyes goes way up every time she messes up our home, bleaching the carpet, breaking things cuz she mindlessly pulls stuff too hard or carelessly. AGAIN. 2. Incidentally, he didnt really develop a new relationship with anyone, and somehow I tided over the resentment and anger and we came to a place of understanding took nearly 2 years though. Adapted from a recent online discussion . When my mom died, my biggest sadness was not for myself, but for my dad. Don't underestimate the importance of helping with little things. The only place where I feel close to her. I felt, and still feel, as though I am left in charge of making sure he's okay. My dad said he could come because he would have to bring his girlfriend. We are a tiny island and so property prices will always be high even now when property and land has dropped substantially. Ive studied alcoholism a lot, and for those of you stricken by our societies version of it, please understand it really is a disease and NOT a choice. I am just asking him not to impose her on me. My husband and I were so shocked that we got sick. She has posted it on her Facebook, and texted my Dad about it. No soon after my mom passed, my mothers 1st cousin started coming around. Too much change and no way to navigate through it or interpret it. You do not wake up one day and say Oops Ive fallen in love. Now my sister and I are back to work and doing as well as we can be doing, I guess. 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Around sept 2022 I mentioned to my mom we were applying places and getting ready to move out as we were outgrowing the space we had there. 6 months after her death, my father announced that he had been dating a new woman and asked if my wife and I wanted to meet her. I read your post and I feel your pain. We are not trying to move me in the family home, nor is marriage even being discussed. It is important, however, to keep in mind that you are the child. Sve informacije prezentovane na sajtu su samo INFORMATIVNOG karaktera. Except for the fact that it was really hard to communicate with her because she spoke little English. He has moved in with her. You could try writing a letter from yourself and your sister because he would have to read it and not interupt or threaten. PERFECT example of entitlement in this societyME ME ME, and Im not talkin about me. The way they gravitate towards any woman friend or family memeber is deeply sad. One of the friends that I talked to took it upon herself to call the girlfriend and tell her all my complaints and now my Dad is so mad at me, blaming me cause the girlfriend is upset and is possibly moving out. I never expected my Dad to be alone after my Mom passed, but I sure didnt expect him to suddenly turn into Mr. I feel like he is being selfish. Only told 1 sibling..I found out by mistake totally devastated.she has been hiding it and has now come out once again without telling her children and 4 stepchildren.the total disregard for feelings, honesty and integrity has consumed me and destroyed our relationship = perhaps for good. She felt needed and purposeful. Definitely this. In time, you will learn to work around it and not let it absorb you and suck you up. It has made my grandmas home a horrible memory now and I really dont know what to do cuz this just isnt right, thanks any suggestions appreciated. I think our options are to either let our relationship continue to grow weaker and more stressful or to try to get him to agree to speak to a counselor/therapist that we could all speak with. I think being told to be friends with the girlfriend is uncalled for. I did not mind that he was dating it all comes down, to who he is dating. Your mother who has passed away and is in heaven wants you to be happy which is your job here on earth. Having to have chemo weekly with only a few breaks in between, left her very ill during the process. However, my grief is still fresh and often debilitating. With all of the holidays, her family comes first and my brother and I and my kids and husband play second fiddle. My parents had been married 50 yrs. Things that I feel need to stay in the family. These things may be forgiven but a person cannot erase the pain from their memory unless they have memory loss. My husband also feared that now that his mother was gone, his stepdad would cast him aside. My brother has never been good at expressing his emotions, so it was especially heartbreaking to hear him express to me and my sisters that he felt abandoned. Now my father has started looking for a woman on matrimonial sites which I came to know when I sneaked into his phone.