Is it normal to think that his mom should be grateful to me???

My son's friend practically lives here and has done so for the past 7 years. His Mom is a single Mother who has a revolving door of men in her shitty little apartment, she drinks, she goes clubbing, she rarely ever buys her son food or clothing and quite frankly, I don't think that she deserves to call herself this boy's Mom. I tried confronting her about it but all she does is give me some speech about how I don't understand how hard it is to be a single Mom. Whatever.

I care for her son and he is part of our family. Whenever he needs clothing, a doctor's visit or anything of the like, he comes to me. Most of his stuff is here too and he sleeps in the top bunk of our son's bunk bed. For all intents and purposes, he is my son and I love him dearly. Our lives are peaceful and she is too occupied with her own bullshit to care about her son or what he does. He sleeps over there occasionally but usually he is here.

Sometimes she can't help herself, though. At least once every 2 or 3 months she comes knocking at our door wondering where her son is and being a complete bitch about it. She complains about the clothes we let him wear or the bed in which he sleeps and that he has to share a room with our son or that our house is messy (which it is only barely) or that we feed him too much fast food (we have Pizza on wednesdays like clock-work, otherwise, we cook) and she complains that I am taking her son and just says nasty shit about how she is going to call the cops on us if we don't quit letting him stay over here. Of course, she becomes sober again and goes home, but really? I am raising YOUR kid and you come over complaining about how I am not doing a good enough job of raising YOUR son?

I really think that she should just shut her mouth (or stuff another cock in it) and leave us at peace. I can't wait until that kid is 18 and we don't have to hear her hell anymore. I think she should just be grateful that someone cares about her son.

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  • memvc

    You have it hard but your doing the right thing. Stay strong, realize she is mentally ill, and don't react to what she throws at you.

    YES! She should be grateful, and so the fact that you are in this position and she is not shows you how much this boy needs you.

    Worst case scenario, you let her get to you and being pitted against her, loose track of this boy who then ends up trapped in her nightmare.

    If ever there was a time to say it. STAY the bigger person or this kid looses everything he has in you.

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  • Terence_the_viking

    soory

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  • boehawk

    Big hugs for doing this for him. I've had friends that were raised like this . With out their friends parents to fill in the huge gaps in their lives they wouldn't have been able to see how family's should really act . Because of ppl like you the chain of bad parenting has a chance of being broke and some day you'll probably have a few extra littles running around calling ya grand ma .

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  • dinz

    First of all I would say kudos to you for taking him in.

    Ignore her and remember to remain civil for the child's sake. Maybe it is time to bring in the big guns and call child services. Remember the priorities of the child is paramount.

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    • I considered calling child services but I know what will happen. Either they will do nothing or he will end up in Foster care. I am much more comfortable with keeping him here. I don't care, he is basically my son, I just don't like her coming over and disturbing us. She is biologically his Mom but other than that, she is nothing to him.

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      • dinz

        Maybe you could consider of looking at legally adopting him from the mother. Obviously this will be with the consent of the mother if you don't want Child services involved.

        (This depends on local laws and your jurisdiction)

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