Step Talk

BF got an email from BM asking him to call her and speak to SS. Well, how is he supposed to call when she doesn't have a phone? So he called BM's parents' house and asked if she was around. BM's mother said no...which started into a 20 minute conversation on BM's mother's opinion on how BF shouldn't "take SS from BM". She kept saying that SS has always been taken care of. Yes, maybe by them, but not by BM. He thanked her for helping take care of SS but explained that it's not their job to provide for SS, it's BM's, and if she can't do that, then it's BF's job to make up for it, not theirs. BF explained to her what's really going on. He explained to her that BM is lying to them about him being a deadbeat and that he's given her thousands of dollars this year alone. He said that all BM has to do is get a job and allow someone to inspect her home for cleanliness and he'll drop everything. Well, that isn't good enough. For some reason, BM and her family believe that BF is just doing this to hurt BM. He kept trying to explain that he's only trying to take care of his son as his father since his mother was incapable of doing so on her own right now without a job. Still, she continued to gripe at him. Then she tried to make him out like he never cared enough to take care of SS before, that he's "never been to his doctor's appointments" and that he had no idea about his medicine or his doctors. BF then quoted all of SS's doctors and explained that SS administers his own medicine, but even if he didn't it's not hard to read the instructions on the bottles. He explained to her that since the divorce, BM won't let BF take SS to any of his doctors. Well, then she started going off about how she doesn't believe in divorce and that if he "REALLY cared" about SS he would have stayed in the marriage. At that point, BF hung up on her.

*sigh* poor BF. I can tell that this conversation really upset him because he won't eat dinner. The first thing he asked for was a beer, and BF doesn't drink but maybe once a month. He's also immersed himself in an episode of South Park and finds it much funnier than usual. I feel so bad for him right now