Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH told his ex-wife that a cat was a better mother and beyond an egg and a uterus, her contribution to their children was unremarkable. He also told her that she should be thanking me for being willing to step up and become the mother the kids had always deserved.

All this about a week after we got custody of my stepkids. She really is a terrible mother. She sees the kids an average of one time a year for two or three days. The kids were 4 and 6 when we gained custody. They are 21 and 18 now and have almost no relationship with their biological mother. Still, those words haunt me because I know they had to devastate her.

This is horrible on so many levels. Your DH sounds like a douche. His XW sounds like a basket case. You, not sure what to think of you for posting this. Do you all live in a trailer park?

Lots of women have told their exes they were nothing but a sperm donor or a deadbeat dad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH told his ex-wife that a cat was a better mother and beyond an egg and a uterus, her contribution to their children was unremarkable. He also told her that she should be thanking me for being willing to step up and become the mother the kids had always deserved.

All this about a week after we got custody of my stepkids. She really is a terrible mother. She sees the kids an average of one time a year for two or three days. The kids were 4 and 6 when we gained custody. They are 21 and 18 now and have almost no relationship with their biological mother. Still, those words haunt me because I know they had to devastate her.

This is horrible on so many levels. Your DH sounds like a douche. His XW sounds like a basket case. You, not sure what to think of you for posting this. Do you all live in a trailer park?

My DH really isn't a douche. This happened a very long time ago in a moment of intense anger. His ex-wife was neglecting the children. No, we do not live in a trailer park. However, not sure how that is relevant. There are a lot of wonderful, hard working people who do live in mobile homes. Your comment says much more about you than you realize. That comment may be someone else's "most insulting thing". Perhaps a little self-reflection on your part is in order.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH told his ex-wife that a cat was a better mother and beyond an egg and a uterus, her contribution to their children was unremarkable. He also told her that she should be thanking me for being willing to step up and become the mother the kids had always deserved.

All this about a week after we got custody of my stepkids. She really is a terrible mother. She sees the kids an average of one time a year for two or three days. The kids were 4 and 6 when we gained custody. They are 21 and 18 now and have almost no relationship with their biological mother. Still, those words haunt me because I know they had to devastate her.

This is horrible on so many levels. Your DH sounds like a douche. His XW sounds like a basket case. You, not sure what to think of you for posting this. Do you all live in a trailer park?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH told his ex-wife that a cat was a better mother and beyond an egg and a uterus, her contribution to their children was unremarkable. He also told her that she should be thanking me for being willing to step up and become the mother the kids had always deserved.

All this about a week after we got custody of my stepkids. She really is a terrible mother. She sees the kids an average of one time a year for two or three days. The kids were 4 and 6 when we gained custody. They are 21 and 18 now and have almost no relationship with their biological mother. Still, those words haunt me because I know they had to devastate her.

This is horrible on so many levels. Your DH sounds like a douche. His XW sounds like a basket case. You, not sure what to think of you for posting this. Do you all live in a trailer park?

Anonymous wrote:My DH told his ex-wife that a cat was a better mother and beyond an egg and a uterus, her contribution to their children was unremarkable. He also told her that she should be thanking me for being willing to step up and become the mother the kids had always deserved.

All this about a week after we got custody of my stepkids. She really is a terrible mother. She sees the kids an average of one time a year for two or three days. The kids were 4 and 6 when we gained custody. They are 21 and 18 now and have almost no relationship with their biological mother. Still, those words haunt me because I know they had to devastate her.

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Anonymous wrote:My thoughts on skimming through this thread: (1) some people have had some really awful things said to them and (2) some people read waaay too much into things and are terribly easily offended. Anyway, this made me think of a situation when I accidentally said something offensive. Really drunk, standing in the bathroom line at my 5-year high school reunion, I struck up a conversation with a girl from my class (not a friend but a small school so everyone knew everyone). She showed me a picture of her new son. At 23, the thought of motherhood was totally foreign to me (I had my first child at 36) but I was genuinely happy for her. So, I meant to rhetorically say, “Wow, do you just love being a mom?!” Instead, it came out as “Do you love him?” Ugh. She was totally offended and I was too drunk to explain myself. My parents don’t live where I went to high school any more so it is unlikely that I will ever see her again and, if I did, I don’t know how I would bring up such an ancient conversation without it sounding really weird. But I do feel bad about it.

Who has a 5 year HS reunion? But I digress..

Anonymous wrote:"You think you're so smart, going to college. You'll be right back here on the street with us." -ex-boyfriend who, it turns out, was a huge junkie.

This statement has been fuel for a lot of amazing things I've gone on to do.