co-parenting issues
I have two stepsons, each has a different mom as my husband was married twice before me. I really just need to vent because it's frustrating. The last year has been especially tough. The younger son his mom just up and left and moved to a different state, she also has not paid child support from day one so she owes a lot of money. She's chosen to not be that involved, maybe calls once or twice a week. The older son, he's 14, his mom lives about 3 hours away and in the last year she has cancelled so many weekends, at first it bothered our oldest a lot. Now it's like a joke to him and he just shrugs it off when I have to tell him she cancelled again. She use to be really good about taking him, but within the last year she hasn't. She's late on child support, not sure by how many months but has paid before.
Yes each mom does not properly have their stuff together and I feel they probably didn't want kids originally or something or didn't realize how tough it is.
My husband and I had a baby girl 14.5 weeks ago and the boys love her and she's been an excellent addition to our home.
My real issue is how much it affects my sons when their moms are not involved. As a "real" mother (as our 8 year old son says), I don't understand how they could just give up and not want to spend time with their kids. I mean they are great kids! They see me interact with our daughter and the younger son starts asking questions, like did my mom do that when I was a baby, etc? Also I'm just plain exhausted, when the moms were involved it was nice every other weekend to have a small break. I mean my husband and I do it all. I get it, that's what parenting is, but it's hard to co-parent when the other side isn't doing their part.
Thanks for listening. Just needed to vent some.
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