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<blockquote data-quote="BloodiedButUnbowed" data-source="post: 712257" data-attributes="member: 13303"><p>Well, SOMEONE has to bring the rain to every parade, so I guess on this thread it will be me that starts the downpour.</p><p></p><p>Mother's Day in our house began on Saturday. The plan was for younger stepson to spend the night with us. Difficult Stepson was to join us at our place Sunday morning for breakfast.</p><p></p><p>We picked up younger stepson on Saturday midafternoon. The day went well until around 7:00 pm. My wife and I got into an argument. It was a bad argument, which triggered younger stepson. Younger stepson disappeared into our basement. We have a walkout basement and I was joking with stepson earlier about "not needing to worry about (younger stepson) sneaking out of the house to smoke." At around 10:30 pm, I was upstairs looking out of a window when I happened to notice younger stepson standing on the sidewalk in front of the house, carrying his bags. I then noticed my wife's ex-husband. I realized immediately that younger stepson had called his father to essentially 'rescue' him from my wife and me - something he has done numerous times in the past.</p><p></p><p>He snuck out - he did not tell my wife or me that he was leaving. If I hadn't spotted him on the sidewalk quite by accident, we would have gone looking for him, found him gone and absolutely lost our minds.</p><p></p><p>I went outside and asked younger stepson if he would talk to me. We talked for a bit. In the end he came back into the house, spoke to my wife briefly, hugged me goodbye and left with his father. My wife and I had a good talk and resolved our argument, but of course we were both very sad and upset that younger stepson essentially ran away from us.</p><p></p><p>The following morning, Mother's Day, Difficult Stepson did not show up as arranged and did not respond to my wife's texts. And as we had expected, there was no word from younger stepson either.</p><p></p><p>So we went out to breakfast by ourselves and spent the remainder of the day with my mother and extended family. We had a good time with them and it helped to save the weekend from being a complete disaster.</p><p></p><p>I realized as all this was happening that I remain over-involved in my wife's relationship with her kids and I need to detach myself even further. This will be a big focus of mine moving forward.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BloodiedButUnbowed, post: 712257, member: 13303"] Well, SOMEONE has to bring the rain to every parade, so I guess on this thread it will be me that starts the downpour. Mother's Day in our house began on Saturday. The plan was for younger stepson to spend the night with us. Difficult Stepson was to join us at our place Sunday morning for breakfast. We picked up younger stepson on Saturday midafternoon. The day went well until around 7:00 pm. My wife and I got into an argument. It was a bad argument, which triggered younger stepson. Younger stepson disappeared into our basement. We have a walkout basement and I was joking with stepson earlier about "not needing to worry about (younger stepson) sneaking out of the house to smoke." At around 10:30 pm, I was upstairs looking out of a window when I happened to notice younger stepson standing on the sidewalk in front of the house, carrying his bags. I then noticed my wife's ex-husband. I realized immediately that younger stepson had called his father to essentially 'rescue' him from my wife and me - something he has done numerous times in the past. He snuck out - he did not tell my wife or me that he was leaving. If I hadn't spotted him on the sidewalk quite by accident, we would have gone looking for him, found him gone and absolutely lost our minds. I went outside and asked younger stepson if he would talk to me. We talked for a bit. In the end he came back into the house, spoke to my wife briefly, hugged me goodbye and left with his father. My wife and I had a good talk and resolved our argument, but of course we were both very sad and upset that younger stepson essentially ran away from us. The following morning, Mother's Day, Difficult Stepson did not show up as arranged and did not respond to my wife's texts. And as we had expected, there was no word from younger stepson either. So we went out to breakfast by ourselves and spent the remainder of the day with my mother and extended family. We had a good time with them and it helped to save the weekend from being a complete disaster. I realized as all this was happening that I remain over-involved in my wife's relationship with her kids and I need to detach myself even further. This will be a big focus of mine moving forward. [/QUOTE]
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