This is our second marriage. He has a daughter in the US and I’m in Asia. I have his son. 16 months now. He likes to spent time with his daughter more than my baby. Yes, his job also in the US, but he don’t allow me to stay with him in the US because he don’t want his daughter to know that he married again. I am angry with this situation and sometimes I feel that he don’t really need this new family.
I am a step mom (or soon to be) of a wonderful 2 and a half year old little girl. My boyfriend and I have been together now for a year and a half. My boyfriend and his ex wife separated when the baby was only a few months old, (no I was not the reason) at that time the ex wife took advantage of the fact that he felt guilt for the marriage failing and that he didn’t know that he could’ve stopped her and she moved out of state back to her hometown, half way across the country. This will be a second marriage for both of us, we’ve known each other since we were kids… at any rate, his ex wife kept their daughter in her homestate and wouldn’t allow visitation to him or his family unless they flew out to see her, which he did several times. When he and I first started dating I didn’t know the specifics of their divorce or their previous agreements so I kept my mouth shut and stayed out of it. He flew out there every 6 weeks to spend anywhere from 5-7 days with her, which ended up being only two days at a time. His ex would let him keep their dauhter for more than two days and then would make him bring her back to her and then he could keep her for another two days before he left… which to me is BS since your making him go all that way and he isnt getting to spend the quality time with her that he was looking to or that she told him he could, but again I kept my mouth shut.
Now over the past year I have given him some advice. I got him to speak up to her and request that she or he be allowed to bring their daughter back here for visitation for him and his family, mind you the family and her (the ex) don’t get along at all, so his parents didn’t see their only grandchild for almost a year, which really bothers me, coming from a tight knit family. I told him I thought he should seek out custody arrangements with an attorney to have the courts appoint visitation so that he is guaranteed to get his time with her, which he has done, we are still waiting on the courts though. Meanwhile, since he has pursued an attorney the ex wife is allowing their daughter to come and stay with us for a few weeks every few months, which is great!
My dilema is that his ex wife doesn’t see me as anything but just a girlfriend. Yes if you want to be technical I am… BUT at the same time, I am going to be marrying her ex and be their daughters step mom, so I will be a major part of their daughters life. I know I don’t have the right to make life decisions on their daughters behalf, But I am the one who she spends a lot of time (which I am grateful for) with if he gets stuck working when she is here, he works shifts and he cant always get the time off he requests (since he is low man at his job and my job is very flexible with time off I take as much time as we need for her). How do I get his ex-wife to start including me in travel plans and such? Or even recognizing that I am here to stay and I am not going anywhere so she has to deal with me as well! When their daughter is here, we follow ALL of the same rules her mother has for her at her house, bed times, nap times, snack times, dinner times etc., even down to the time outs if she misbehaves (as much as we hate to) we want this transition from our house to hers to be as easy as possible and want her to know that different houses doesn’t mean there are different rules! I also want her to know about the things I try to do or have done with her when she is here, so that she doesn’t feel like an outsider. Is there I way that I can try to develop some type of relationship with my future husbands ex, that is healthy and open as opposed to it being a resentful and painstaking relationship?
Sorry this is a little long winded, I am trying to give you all a background on the relationship as it is now… feel free to ask questions
Thank you for your responses… and any additional info you can offer me is extremely helpful also!
Lovin_Life… I do not think you are too young at all, in fact I think it is great that you responded because it opens my eyes to the other side, the kid side and I love that! As adults we sometimes lose sight of how the child feels and that isnt right. We need to include them every step of the way, which is what I try to do with her when she is here, even though she is so young, I think when she gets older she will appreciate that more!
THANK YOU
and to Domi E thank you for your honesty, I held my breathe posting this b/c I was prepared for someone to bash me telling me I need to know my roll and back out of the childs life or something similar, since I read other Step Parenting questions prior to posting this one.
Thank you!
10 months later I STILL HAVE CONCERNS
I had read 6 different books including Michele’s d_busting. We never went to counseling. Back in August 9, 2008 I discovered 100′s of phone calls made from my wife cellular to the manager of the PX supermarket were she used to purchase our groceries. Right after I told her about my discover she asked me for divorce.I starting reading and reading and reading desperate to save my marriage . I extracted everything from 6 different books since not everything applied to our case. I did my investigative work with not too good results. I stoped "interrogating" my wife since she was planning to fleet. We had a mix of miserable and wonderful days together.
10 months later I continue with the investigation and guess what…I found out that I was chasing the wrong OM and I called the "wrong" OMW back in Octuber last year…(sh#!@). I was close but it wasn’t enough.
Today. I know exactly who is the OM. I know the name of the OMW. They have apparently have a "happy" family. Both of them are going thru a second marriage. I told my wife from the begining that she was dealing with a married man. She didn’t believed me. She said the OM told her he was divorced and that he lived alone in an apartment. Guess what…they live in a house 7 miles from our house and the guy is the manager of a local PX supermarket.
My concern: I haven’t prove it yet but I believed they started the telephone convertations after this guy was promoted and transfered from the px supermarket close to our house to a supermarket 20 miles from us in June 2007. I tracked (gps) her once in Octuber last year after the Discovery day and I was able to confirm this. Now, yesterday I confirmed that this guy was transfered to a PX supermarket closer to our house. My wife is totally unaware of this situation. I entered the supermarket and I saw his picture hanging on the wall "store manager". My concern is: my wife sometimes goes to this supermarket. If she discover the guy is there something may happen. So far she hasn’t promise me she will not see this guy again. I’m confuse. Everything in our marriage looks so far so good but I feel unconfortable with this asshole now to close to us. I don’t know if should go to his work place and warn this guy about what could happens if I discover another phone call in my wife cell, or maybe I should treat him to let his wife know everything about his affair with my wife. That could start another problem that I can not afford at this point. I feel like I want "revenge". All the miserable days this guy made me go through but at the same time I realize that if my wife knows that I’m following this guy she may be not too happy. I also discovered that this guy launch his boat at the same marina we launch our boat.
After 10 months of hard work to get to were we are, to a point that it looks like a "permanent" honeymoon. I’m still affraid to blow it. Please somebody help me. I need feedback. For the last 2 days I haven’t been able to sleep well again. I’m having dreams about fighting with this guy. Even when I’m awake I feel like going to his place and tell what a piece a Jerk he is. Even I’m thinking about telling his wife. I know that even tho 10 months has passed it isn’t enough to cool down. I think if I ever get close this guy I will kick his ass or it could even be worse. I still don’t know. I feel unconfortable now that I know the OM is around. Need feedback
After 29 years married it’s difficult to think about divorce. My wife and me dicided not to talk about this anymore an continue we our lives. Actually we are having a better time together, thanks God. I admitted I had some problems and believe me I’m working hard to solve them. We dicided not to divorce. There is only one proble and thatis that my wife does want to answer all my questions. I pray to God every day and I believe he will change her heart and surprisily she will come to me and ask for an appology. Only after that I will be in peace. But I can’t ask for an appology. I think it will take time. I did emotionally abandon her to engage in internet chating. I confesed to her that I wasted a year in this f*&king Internet.
This is my second marriage. We have been married a little over a year, and yet I am totally insecure. I’m overweight and so is he, and yes I was overweight when he met me, so it wasn’t like I gained weight once we got married. I also stopped working, (his request) about a month after we got married. And I have not been able to find other work. I have always been a HARD worker and not working has literally destroyed my self esteem.
He was deeply in love with his ex-wife and she really hurt him. It took him a long time to get over her. She has a daughter with another guy, but my husband feels like he is her dad. They talk on the phone often, and he will often talk to the girl’s mother. Although he says the mother disgusts him, and he feels she’s one step above white trash, the fact that he talks to her drives me up the wall. Because I am constantly worried that his old feelings will come back. See, when we first started going together and then got married, he was hardly talking to the daughter or the mom. They were on kind of a "hiatus", I guess because of some kind of difference of opinion. But since we have married he has reconciled with the daughter and they started talking again. And I am constantly worried that he will want to go back with her mom. She was his first serious love, and she works and is much better looking than me. At least I feel she is, my husband disagrees.
He looks at other women a lot. Women that are way better looking than me. But he says looking is all he is doing. Which I believe, but I don’t understand why, because he could literally take his pick. We don’t have sex that often, because he has diabetes and high blood pressure which has caused him to have ED and he is considerably older than me. I’m 39 and he is 50. And for some reason lately, whenever we do have sex, I am worried that he is thinking of her. Or he’s thinking of somebody better looking. Because he couldn’t POSSIBLY be attracted to me. Despite him saying I am the prettiest girl he knows, and that he wouldn’t leave me for her or any other girl I have the hardest time being convinced of this. Why? What can I do to snap out of this?
Many people divorce and learn that they were better off with their first husband or first wife.
Do you wish you had worked harder to save your first marriage. Was there much hidden baggage that you have discovered in your second marriage like he/she is controllng, crazy, has horrible credit, stubborn. They hid their true personality and beliefs just to get you hooked?
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