EveWasFramed
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So much has happened in a little over a week. It's simply unfathomable. 16 yo stepson wrecked and totaled the car his dad just bought him - $5400 down the drain. One week later, he "runs away" and comes back at six the next morning, less a $550 xbox One and a nearly brand new iPhone 7. Says he spent the night in the woods. Cops made him take them to where he claimed to have left his stuff - no stuff to be found. Two days later, at my suggestion, his mom had him drug tested. So, I'm guessing he traded $1250 worth of electronics that his dad worked hard to buy for him, to go on a weed bender.
He has fines to pay for his citation when he wrecked his car, and also a misdemeanor to be in court for - its against the law to run away in GA.
His mom is saying she "can't deal with him anymore" and saying we need to take him back. My husband reminder her that we're moving into a two bedroom apartment and have nowhere to put him. She suggested that he couldn't share a room with my 11 year old daughter. He said absolutely not. So then the kid calls him the next day, asking to move with us. He told him the same thing he told his ex - we have nowhere to put you.
Today, the ex called him at work and said she and the kid had talked and the kid felt like no one wanted him and he thought it was best for him to move to TN for a fresh start. My husband reiterates the two previous conversations.
She calls AGAIN, about 9:30 this evening, saying she asked the kid to pick up his area of the bedroom floor. Supposedly a fight ensued and she called my husband, saying she was shaking, she couldn't put up with the kid's crap anymore, etc. My husband asked her exactly what it was that she thought he could do from 350 miles away. She said I don't mean right this minute...
What she means is that she wants his dad to remove him from her home ASAP. He's costing her a lot of money in fines, etc. and she will likely have to take him to do community service work. She simply doesn't want him around because of drugs, he cost her money, he fights with her, doesn't do as he's told and won't do his schoolwork.
So...I guess she thinks it's ok to send the kid to us, knowing full well that his dad works all the time and won't be there to keep an eye on him. What happened to raising your kids and tossing them off on someone else NOT being an option?? I've never ONCE called my ex husband and asked him to take my daughter, come get her for a while, etc.
I'm sorry, I know everyone gets tired of seeing me beating my head against the wall about this stuff, but I have no place else to rent about it.
Thank you!!