Marie Millien
Hi tribe,
Hope everyone is doing well... For me, everything is pretty much routine... Something bothersome happened today, tried to speak to my husband about it but he doesn't seem to see any issue.
my husband has a 15 year old son, who I've never met or even spoke to him on the phone (because he never wants to when his father asked him if he wants to speak to me)... He's in Haiti. His mother abandoned him before he was two. Since I married his father, he calls me "mother" (on the rare occasions we exchange WhatApp messages). Earlier today, he sent a message asking how I was doing and how my day had gone. Then goes into how much he loves me and how no words to express how much he loves me...sounds sweet right? Well, the next paragraph was about how he was running out of data on his phone and that's why he has not communicated with me (not exactly true but ok) then he asked I can put minutes on his phone; it would make him so happy and then we will be able to communicate.
I showed the messages to my husband without saying anything and he asked me "what's the problem?" I didn't say anything but I'm stewing.
I find this exchange with my step son incredibly manipulative. I would have preferred if he had just asked me for data on his phone rather than going on and on about how much he loved me when in the 2 years I've been with his father, we've not spoken once and have gone months and months with zero contact on a WhatApp.
It actually makes me worry about how he will be when he starts dating if he already has these tactics .. Am I overreacting?
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