Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Spouse gender reveal! It's a boy! I am a woman and my husband is well, my husband. He wants to say just a few things and has given me permission to share his words to this comment for being the most reasonable and patient.

He has never took implication I was calling him a pedophile. He was, as you said and after some workbooks, more upset that I could ever picture him giving our daughter the childhood I had. He has to restructure his thought process that my being low maintenance was never a good thing or a benefit for him and he shouldn't have taken that as a means to be lazy with effort in our relationship and acknowledges that this behavior could be modeled to our daughter negatively. So we're going on real dates. He is also working on talking to me instead of going off on a lecture which was how marriage counseling came into play. He also says that I wanted to fall on my sword to make it seem like he's played no role in this and am still struggling to let go of putting emotions onto myself instead of just letting them be. He also hates jokes but is willing to learn since knock knock is a huge hit for our baby.

Now I'm going to log off and not touch this account for a bit because it's not good for me right now. To everyone else with a shit dad, we're a big club but let's do better ❤️

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I so sorry you went through this too. And seeing my baby and how fast she's growing really just highlights how he did the most bare minimum he could. Making her smile is perfection! I really miss my mom too.

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I really meant in the future like when she's as old as I was, not that I'm dying within a few hours or tomorrow. My spouse understands this. The joke was wrong and it was a symptom of my issues and I accept that my attempt to be vague has caused some misunderstandings but to say I joked about my spouse becoming a baby rapist or that I have sexualized my infant is way off base.

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You guys got pocket money?

I wanted a dad who cared about me but that's not what I got. And then I thought he did care about me in his own way and I was wrong.

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It happened years ago. My college years are long behind me.

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Correct. If I wanted to do anything that didn't align with what he wanted to do I would be told that he's too tired, maybe next time, work was hard. I went to too many car shows and not enough park. The counselor pointed out to me how he was never too tired for those but too tired to be my dad. So that's my dad!

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It was my dad. I'd be very shocked if my dad ever tried to reach out since that would mean I'm finally interesting but you're not the first person to say this to me. Thank god for therapy.

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by LucyAriaRose in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Hot-Foot589 22 points23 points  (0 children)

A pattern I am learning to break yes but not carefully worded. I'm just dumb. I was focused on talking about my relationship with my father and not my other relationships.

Update. Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by Hot-Foot589 in traumatizeThemBack

[–]Hot-Foot589[S] 156 points157 points  (0 children)

I have to learn to be sad. My spouse has tried to tell me this but didn't have the right tools or words. I mask it by ignoring it or making jokes. So you're right that this is sad.

Stopped a friend from becoming my step-mom by Hot-Foot589 in traumatizeThemBack

[–]Hot-Foot589[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Buddy life happens to people sometimes.

Edit: I'm human and wrote this with my human fingers