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I’ve been with my fiance for 5 years and we have a wonderful 3-year-old son. We’re both 22, been together since we were 17. He’s a great man, treats me well and he’s honestly the best dad I’ve ever seen! Our relationship was almost perfect for a long time. But things are going downhill and it’s really taking a toll on our relationship.
My fiance’s dad died 6 years ago. He has two little brothers-ages 8 and 12. His mom won’t get a job and tries to live off her husband’s social security checks but it’s obviously not working because she’s still broke as hell. She just mooches off the government and her son. My fiance got his first job when he was 17 and she always took his entire paycheck. Now that we have a baby, she doesn’t take all of his money, but about half. We have a child to take care of, why can’t she just get a job and stop taking our money?? I understand my fiance wanting to help her out, but it will never end. It’s not like we’re set with our money…I’m a college student so we still live paycheck to paycheck. The rest of his family doesn’t really like me because I’m white and they’re Samoan. There are so many things about their culture that I don’t understand or I don’t agree with. Oh and they all love to gossip…there are so many made up rumors about us.
Anyway, my fiance’s mom has been in the hospital since November. It started out with diabetes related issues. For awhile we thought she wasn’t going to make it. Thankfully, her health has improved…but she’ll never be able to talk or eat again (only through a tube.) She can’t drive anymore and will need 24 hour care. The whole time she was in the hospital, my fiance and I have been taking care of his little brothers. I was kind of excited at first because they’re so poor that there is a lot they haven’t experienced in life. When their mom was around all they did was sit in the house and play video games all day. She never helped them with homework, they don’t have books they can read, she never told them to shower or brush their teeth etc. They had lice infested hair so we got that taken care of & got their hair cut, bought them new outfits and shoes, books, helped with their homework, took them places & made them shower every night. Yet, they are very rude and ungrateful kids. They are very disrespectful and I’ve been trying to be patient and work with them on this. One of the biggest problems is that the 8-year-old craps in his pants EVERY SINGLE DAY. My fiance always got calls from the school nurse saying that his little brother needs a change of clothes because he pooped in his pants! And the kid never even feels bad about it…he goes about his day with poop in his pants and WE smell it and tell him to go change! He will NEVER tell us that he did it, we always have to discover it on our own. This is so hard for me. This one also had behavorial issues in school.
On top of all this, my mom had a heart attack three weeks ago. If she would’ve waited 30 min, she would’ve died. And my dad has been an alcoholic for the past 2 years…he went to rehab last week. It’s just hard on me, I love my parents so much.
There are other issues in our life, including debt that my fiance’s mom caused him about a year ago (using HIS NAME on something) but I don’t want to get into all that.
I’m just stressed out, I have other friends that complain about their relationships & I wish they could just see that they don’t have it so bad. I’m a 22-year-old college student…I’d LOVE to only have to worry about my baby boy & my school work! We’ve been fighting so much for the past 7 months…I think it’s mainly STRESS.
How can we get through this without hurting our relationship?
up4more- we live in our OWN house, not with his mom.