Anonymous wrote:Let him emancipate and live in his condo. He can't move back in with you.

As scary as this might seem as his mother- it might actually make your relationship better if you support this course of action. You can use it as a way to try to re-set your relationship as an adult child and parent. I don't think that the vast majority of 16 year olds have an adult mind (at the very least they have a lot to learn about life and relationships with family) but it sounds like logistically, he can safely take care of himself in an adult manner since its what he's been doing already.

You can support him even with him living in a condo(perhaps one close by would be good), can have visiting schedule or weekly dinners set up and offer to help with the condo ownership details as they come up

I never think "troll post", but I did right away with this one. But i read through all the pages, and no one suggested it til just at the end. So... the verdict is that it's real? (and I have to admit I could see it possibly being real, maybe.. But if it IS, where do you live, OP? In California? What's with the longboarding and scuba diving that Gabe is doing?)

And IF it's true, yes I agree with others, that Gabe has had a rough time of it and is in need of some love and attention. Poor kid. And no, he shouldn't have to live with his Dad's new woman and her kids, esp. given how awful she was to him.

But again, to me, this thread read totally false.

I can follow OP mostly but she sounds "cra cra" as in crazy...

I say troll.
OP's grammar is terrible, except for the lines where she quotes what "Gabe" said.
If this is a troll, why do people write such convoluted troll posts?

This makes no sense. The child needs a legal guardian. Either you or attorney need to file and start to act as a parent and parent him. At 16 he should not be calling the shots. You and dad failed him by the lack of parenting and now you (or he) is paying the price.

Vanilla wrote:Why would you write the name of your son on this forum?

How do you know Gabe is the real name?

Signed, Mother of Bobby

(or am I?)