Hey! I just found y’all today. I have a story somewhat like so many that I have read here.
In short, my story is this, I got along with all of my stepchildren while my husband and I were just friends and while we were dating but as soon as we became engaged his ex became jealous, very angry, and started manipulating the kids. They are now very young adults - 18, 21, and 24, and this has only been about 2 years. Their mom is bi-polar and grandmother is described as being very much like the mother. I have asked my husband and the oldest daughter, 24, not to talk about the mother like they sometimes do in front of me so when they do I excuse myself from it. Anyway, the girls (21 still lives with her brother, mom, and mom’s new family) and I get along great. The boy, 18, and I used to get along very well but his behavior has become increasingly disrespectful and intimidating toward me. He has crashed a surprise party I was having for my husband and absolutely ruined it - cussing loudly and just being brash with us and our guests. When my husband asked him to stop he postured-up to him and said what are you going to do about it? You don’t get to tell me what to do old man! And to my shock, my husband backed down and changed the subject and let him stay at the all adult party. That was a year and a half ago. Since then he has come into my home while I was there alone and postured-up to me and then went into our basement while I was calling my husband to come home - he took several bags of things (likely his own stuff but I have no idea what he took). The boy had a key but I changed the locks because my husband wouldn’t do it. Shortly after that event, the boy reported to the police that his gun was stolen from his mother’s home. The boy has driven past our home several times while I am there and just not stopped but I have wondered why he would be doing that. Once he did it several times in the same day until I called my parents who came over to hang with me.
The boy, in my husband’s words, “bullies” me and while my husband “understands that I am afraid of him” and agrees that he has “intentionally intimidated” (husband’s words) me and behaved with blatant disrespect, husband still says the boy would never hurt me so he does not see him as a threat. Since the time the boy got in husbands face, husband states over and over that he will not tolerate this type behavior toward me from his son but each time he acts out at me husband does not even acknowledge it. The boy is more brash each time I see him, which is very rarely because I try to avoid him as much as possible.
Wednesday evening we had a family event at oldest daughters home where son was present. Both daughters were talking to their father about the mother’s hate of me and their need to appease her because of her issues and their discomfort with it all. Usually I exit but because it was about me it seemed like I needed to know it though not participate in it. The youngest daughter stated “dad, you just don’t get it. I mean, it’s bad! ‘Brother’ and mom have some type connection and he can get away with anything. I mean, ‘Brother’ can do whatever he wants and mom supports him. He could kill someone and mom would say he didn’t mean to.” It really struck a chord with me that she said mom would say not mom would believe.
I have felt a little fear of the boy for quite some time and I even have told my husband but now I feel a ton of fear. Earlier today husband said the daughters statement was just a random statement but I said I feel like it was spoken out of a seed of hate and who knows what else that is in that house with their mom and that it sounded too specific to be considered random.
I don’t think people just throw around statements of killing in today’s society. Am I being dramatic or does that sound reasonable? Husband said the boy has always been a little jerk but he’s basically a good kid with no history of violence so there is no reason to make so much of this. Husband puts no weight in the statement nor does he connect the dots between son’s hate, ex’s hate, son’s growing contemptuous and threatening behavior, and the “stolen” gun. I say people do astounding things out of jealousy and rage and he says I am not wrong about all of this BUT son would never do that.
Am I right to feel afraid? I am absolutely furious at husband for not believing son is a threat. Can y’all please advise? I am thinking of filing a report with the police just to have on record the stress and fear in this situation. Part of me says this will put the boy over the edge and part of me says if I don’t and something happens to me who would report these truths. Ugh...why won’t husband stand up to the son’s inappropriate behavior?
In short, my story is this, I got along with all of my stepchildren while my husband and I were just friends and while we were dating but as soon as we became engaged his ex became jealous, very angry, and started manipulating the kids. They are now very young adults - 18, 21, and 24, and this has only been about 2 years. Their mom is bi-polar and grandmother is described as being very much like the mother. I have asked my husband and the oldest daughter, 24, not to talk about the mother like they sometimes do in front of me so when they do I excuse myself from it. Anyway, the girls (21 still lives with her brother, mom, and mom’s new family) and I get along great. The boy, 18, and I used to get along very well but his behavior has become increasingly disrespectful and intimidating toward me. He has crashed a surprise party I was having for my husband and absolutely ruined it - cussing loudly and just being brash with us and our guests. When my husband asked him to stop he postured-up to him and said what are you going to do about it? You don’t get to tell me what to do old man! And to my shock, my husband backed down and changed the subject and let him stay at the all adult party. That was a year and a half ago. Since then he has come into my home while I was there alone and postured-up to me and then went into our basement while I was calling my husband to come home - he took several bags of things (likely his own stuff but I have no idea what he took). The boy had a key but I changed the locks because my husband wouldn’t do it. Shortly after that event, the boy reported to the police that his gun was stolen from his mother’s home. The boy has driven past our home several times while I am there and just not stopped but I have wondered why he would be doing that. Once he did it several times in the same day until I called my parents who came over to hang with me.
The boy, in my husband’s words, “bullies” me and while my husband “understands that I am afraid of him” and agrees that he has “intentionally intimidated” (husband’s words) me and behaved with blatant disrespect, husband still says the boy would never hurt me so he does not see him as a threat. Since the time the boy got in husbands face, husband states over and over that he will not tolerate this type behavior toward me from his son but each time he acts out at me husband does not even acknowledge it. The boy is more brash each time I see him, which is very rarely because I try to avoid him as much as possible.
Wednesday evening we had a family event at oldest daughters home where son was present. Both daughters were talking to their father about the mother’s hate of me and their need to appease her because of her issues and their discomfort with it all. Usually I exit but because it was about me it seemed like I needed to know it though not participate in it. The youngest daughter stated “dad, you just don’t get it. I mean, it’s bad! ‘Brother’ and mom have some type connection and he can get away with anything. I mean, ‘Brother’ can do whatever he wants and mom supports him. He could kill someone and mom would say he didn’t mean to.” It really struck a chord with me that she said mom would say not mom would believe.
I have felt a little fear of the boy for quite some time and I even have told my husband but now I feel a ton of fear. Earlier today husband said the daughters statement was just a random statement but I said I feel like it was spoken out of a seed of hate and who knows what else that is in that house with their mom and that it sounded too specific to be considered random.
I don’t think people just throw around statements of killing in today’s society. Am I being dramatic or does that sound reasonable? Husband said the boy has always been a little jerk but he’s basically a good kid with no history of violence so there is no reason to make so much of this. Husband puts no weight in the statement nor does he connect the dots between son’s hate, ex’s hate, son’s growing contemptuous and threatening behavior, and the “stolen” gun. I say people do astounding things out of jealousy and rage and he says I am not wrong about all of this BUT son would never do that.
Am I right to feel afraid? I am absolutely furious at husband for not believing son is a threat. Can y’all please advise? I am thinking of filing a report with the police just to have on record the stress and fear in this situation. Part of me says this will put the boy over the edge and part of me says if I don’t and something happens to me who would report these truths. Ugh...why won’t husband stand up to the son’s inappropriate behavior?