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DH having a hard time accepting BM new BF in sons life

Coco72's picture

I knew this day would come, DH has been divorced previously and has two children from that marriage, within a year after his divorce from BM1 he had full custody of his two sons and she was not involved at all, she suffers from severe mental illness which presented in adulthood. With that being said he never had to "share" his children with another father figure. BM2 (our current HCBM) had 3 children from previous relationships when they got together, and then together they had one, SS11. So he has been a step-dad, but he has never had to deal with another man in his children's lives.

Fast forward to now.....I have been in the picture for a year now, and we have been married about 6 weeks, we have 50/50 custody. As I stated BM is HC with lots of Narcissistic traits, there is no coparenting, we are lucky to parallel parent with her at best. In the beginning she didn't want SS anywhere near me, she even filed a restraining order against DH and included SS when we first moved in together (she never showed up to court), she would tell SS that he didn't have to listen to me, and that she was his only mommy. Typical HCBM stuff. In court the mediator and judge told her that she has no say over what happens at our house or who DH chooses to be with. 

While BM is definitely HC, she also had some valid points, and I would voice that to DH when they would arise, and I often told him that he did not understand because he has never been in the position of sharing a child, I have, and it is hard in the beginning (or atleast is was for me). He just thought that she should trust his judgment as SS father, and she should be grateful that SS had me as a SM. Nice sentiments but not always practical.

Well BM now has a serious BF, I do not think they actually live together but he is there all the time and is part of SS life. She has had many BF's during the marriage and since the divorce, lol, but this is the first one she has introduced to SS. A couple weeks ago SS called DH and told him he was working on moms washing machine with new BF, I could see that it upset DH, but he said he was fine. Well this morning he tells me that he thinks BF is going to attend the end of the year picnic at SS school and he doesn't like it. So I remind him that just like she didn't like when SS and I did things together, he might not like it but he has no say, that he has to trust her choices just like he wanted her to trust his. Unless we have proof otherwise. He didn't like what I had to say, and went to work pissy.

Any advice? 

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CLove's picture

You can now share your experiences with DH about the process of accepting the BM's BF. And that DH should be allowing him to help BM with the coparenting. Remind DH that it is good that SS has a decent male authority figure in his life, while with BM, that this new important man will calm the HCBM down significantly and make life easier for him as a result. People do get jealous and males have a competition thing going on, but once his feathers unruffle, his logic will come forward and he will see the benefits of a good solid man in HCBM's and SS's life.

saruhhh_04's picture

Give him time. My SO wasn't thrilled when he found out that BM was seeing another man, and that SS was around him. This was mainly because she has jumped from guy-to-guy and had SS around all of them. But after a few months and realizing that this was serious relationship, he slowly started to accept it.

BM has been with this guy for a little over a year, and now lives with him. It no longer seems to really bother SO when SS tells stories about this man. The only thing that does bother him is lately SS has started calling this man 'daddy' and calling SO by his first name. Which understandably upsets him. However, SO does not have 50/50 custody and we don't know what BM is telling him.

You are not alone with the double standards from BM. The BM in my life shows them all the time. The more relevant one would be that she started using this man to pick up SS from our house shortly after they started dating (and this forced SO to meet him). Meanwhile, BM still refuses to meet me almost 3 years later. And if my SO tried to pull the same thing and sent me to her house to pick up SS, she would not stand for it at all. It is frustrating, but we can only do so much.

Just hang in there and give your SO some time to process. It won't happen overnight, but in time it will.