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I (45f) divorced my ex-husband when my daughter "Kelly" (21f) was around 12 after I caught him cheating for the second time. Literally everyone was against it and I knew the In-Laws wouldn't like it because they're traditional conservatives who didn't want to deal with the public scandal, but it was hurtful to me that my own family was trying to pressure me to stay in the marriage in order to not loose access to the money and perks my ex had provided.

Example(s): While we were married my ex helped my brother get a nice job with a high salary and nice benefits, paid-off my sister's credit card debts, and bought my parents really lavish gifts.

The first time I caught him cheating I wanted out back then but my family convinced me to forgive him and that I owed it to Kelly to fight for her to have the stability of a two-parent household. My daughter was only a few weeks old at the time and I was in a very vulnerable state at the time, so I agreed and felt so stupid when my ex did it again but this time there wasn't a "you weren't performing your wifely duties since you got pregnant" excuse anymore. This time I wasn't going to be deterred and continued with the divorce.

In truth, I wanted to keep Kelly out of this as much as possible but my In-Laws and my own parents poisoned her against me by painting me as a hypocrite for telling her how important forgiveness is but that I wasn't willing to forgive Daddy even when he was really sorry. I was distraught. I honestly don't think I would've made it through if it weren't for my best friend "Tina" who was my rock. In the end I got a nice settlement and some alimony, but didn't get custody. I tried my hardest to still be in Kelly's life but by the time she was a teen she was fully convinced that I was the bad guy and told the courts she didn't want to see me anymore. I was heartbroken but kept reaching out. During that time I also managed to go back to school (I was studying Accounting) and managed to get a high-paying job of my own and have a nice life for myself.

The same can't be said for my ex who was sued by a former employee and fired by his company. Because he was so embarrassed my ex burned through his savings trying to keep up his lifestyle, which included Kelly's college fund. Suddenly she wanted contact again, and I won't lie and say that I wasn't hurt at the idea of her only wanting contact was for my money and agreed to pay for her to go to grad school on the condition that she sig

My MIL’s goddaughter (“Amy”) is not a nice person but I’m the only one who seems to see it. So, when I walked in on my 4-year-old son close to tears and being pressured by his dad to apologise to her for being rude, I immediately intervened.

My son insisted Amy had said something mean to him, but she tried to make it look like my son misunderstood and was overreacting. From past experience, I knew she was lying. My husband kept insisting my son needed to apologise. Instead, I told my son I believed him and that he didn’t need to apologise. My son said, “but daddy said I have to” and I replied to tell him that he still didn’t have to. I asked him to go pick a book for bedtime, even though my husband kept protesting and insisting he couldn’t leave until he said sorry.

After we put our son to bed, my husband had a huge argument with me. He kept saying I was undermining his parenting and teaching our son that he could get away with not listening to his dad. He insisted our son was being rude and that was unacceptable and that I was blinded by my dislike of Amy. I replied by telling him that he was the blind one. He also blamed me for our son asking if his dad didn't love him anymore.

AITA?

Edit:

Amy is 32. She told my son his dad would send him and me far away soon because he was annoying (my husband wasn't there when this happened). He interrupted them earlier while they were working to ask his dad to play with him and Amy was upset that my husband actually did. I believe him because when we first got married she would say similar things to me. My son yelled that she was a liar, which is what my husband thought was rude.

Long story short my ex dumped me in april, 2 months after promising to work things up with me (I was about to leave when she did). We were together for one and a half year. It was a peaceful breakup, but I realised how it was a toxic relation for me. She haven't contatcted me since, except to give me things I had at out appartment and she moved 100km away 1 month post BU.

She saw my goddaughter for her birthday this summer. I didn't mind then, because my goddaughter made the list of people to invite. They really liked eachother and I was ok with that. But for christmas, my ex called my sister to tell her that she was around town and had presents for the kids.

I talked with my sister, she says that she wouldn't reach out to my ex but the girls love her. I told her that I was ok with it, but I'm not sure anymore.

My sister is pretty much like my ex and turns defensive when we talk about my past relationship. She is my closest confident, so I feel I have no one else.

It also breaks my heart to hear my niece talk about her. To see that my family see her as a good person while she was kind of abusive with me.

What do I do? I don't feel like imposing something on my sister, and I don't wanna contact my ex.

My cousin/C (f32) is the mum to my (f28) goddaughter/GD(f8) and my Sisters (f25) godson(M5). My sister is a Uni student, I work as an Assistant for a Boy on the spectrum.We both earn below 1k C. makes the Kids belive all presents are From Santa even ours.

My GDs Birthday was in September and I as asked what she would Like as a gift. She said some lego or Money towards her Nintendo Switch she was saving for. I asked what she'd prefer and she said "both".I was a little stunned and told her that it would be a small Lego Set then and half the regular Money. She was "okay" With it. I gave her Legos for about 20€ and an envelope with 25€. She didn't say thank you. Black friday a shop had a Deal where you get any 50€ Card for 40€. I got two so I could Gift GD one for Christmas when she would have enough Money for the Switch (according to her mum). Dec. my sister & I both had some big bills to pay and decided on no presents for Christmas because of it. Her godson gets smnt small & my goddaughter would get the Giftcard. So we didn't ask for the "wishlist"

Note:the wishlist-The Last few years nothing was below 40€ and my cousin expects us to at least spend 50€ because we don't have Kids.

A week to Christmas I talked to GD and asked her If she got the Switch ordered. irritated she told me she had spend most of the savings on random Toys through Aug-Nov. and had 50€ left. So no Switch.

I also told my sister and she said her godson did the same. So they bought about 500€ of Toys in 3 month. We were shocked and kinda p'ssed.We are not the "spoiling" Kids rotten aunts, we Work With Kids who rarely If even get presents for Christmas. So no Gifts and instead donate the Christmas Tipps to a charity that helps Low income familys in our area. We didn't ask for the wishlist which should've been a sighn for C but on Christmas Eve she was at the door. I was super irritated and she already was kinda hissy. My GD gave me a Handmade tealight holder and I thanked her. After a little Chat they went over to my sister (above the Restaurant) and C barged in when my sister was bathing her Dog. My mum told me when they were gone, that she told C and the Kids when they came that we didn't want presents because there were none for them. C was cranky and the Kids shruged it of, mum Said. Later that day my GD called with her new SmartWatch, she got From Santa. She seemed Happy and told me about all the nice Gifts she got.

I send her mum a Photo of the tealight holder la

[Note: my goddaughter falls me Gigi (pronounced with hard gs)]

I was hanging out with my 3 yr old goddaughter and I picked her up sideways like this while we were playing. https://imgur.com/a/bIfxhb6

I said "Ok! I've got my suitcase!" And then put her down on the floor.

She then stood up and looked at me VERY seriously and said "NO Gigi. Don't open my body!! I die!"

I apologized to her and let her know that I won't open her body.

No.

I have another post about her, but I decided to post here too for some advice.

My mother-in-law’s goddaughter (“Amy”) is not a nice person but she’s clever about it, so my husband and in-laws all think she’s a sweetheart. She has done some horrible things to me, including calling me my husband’s plaything and refusing to give him his phone/pass a message on when I went into labour. Recently, she told my 4-year-old son that his dad would send us away because he was annoying. My husband sided with her, and it caused a huge fight between us (more info in my other post) and my son ended up asking me if his dad didn’t love him anymore.

In the beginning, I tried to be understanding. She is family to him/them, and I know if he told me my sister was doing/saying things I would’ve had a hard time accepting it at first, but it has been 5 years and he still can’t see it. I also thought at first, she would get better with time, but she is still awful.

We did move countries when our son was 1 and things were fantastic but recently it’s been obvious that we will move closer to my in-laws again, hence be closer to her. My husband and her are also working together again so she seems to be back in my life for good.

Any advice on how to deal with her?

TL;DR – MIL’s goddaughter has been horrible to me (and now my son) but no one else can see it. We will most likely move closer to her again and I don’t know what to do about her.

I have a 13yo goddaughter. I live in a different country from her and all my other relatives. Last year I bought her a nice sports hoodie (she’s very athletic) for Christmas. Her mother sent me a message a few days after Christmas telling me how much my goddaughter loves the hoodie and that she had been wearing it a lot.

Fast forward ~2 months. My mother is browsing a local classified advertisement website. She notices that my goddaughter’s mother has put the hoodie on sale. The description says that the hoodie was bought from where I live (e.g. “Was bought in Paris”) and that it’s brand new and unused.

This made me feel like shit. Initially I wanted to bring it up with my goddaughter’s mother, but then I started hesitating and didn’t want to cause a fuss. I would have appreciated if she had told me that the hoodie was of wrong size/colour/style etc. (although I’m 100% sure that the size was right), so that I would know in the future. Her mother has a history of tactless comments and less than satisfactory social skills.

Now, I feel like not wanting to buy my goddaughter a present, but at the same time I don’t want to make her feel like I have some resentment towards her.

Would you bring up the subject of finding the Christmas present on sale 2 months after Christmas? Should I still get her something?

Tl;dr: Last year my goddaughter’s mother told me how much my goddaughter loves the Christmas present I got her. Less than two months later I found out she was selling it online as “new and unused”. Should I get her a present this year?

Hi all. I am a definite novice when it comes to investment but I’d like to put small amounts of money aside for my goddaughter as an alternative to spending money on pointless gifts (she is only a few weeks old).

I’m talking only a few hundred euro a year- but with the hopes of giving the lump sum to her when she turns 18.

Obviously a savings account would be easiest but I would hate to lose so much to inflation over the 18 years. Any advice? Has anyone here done anything similar for a child?

Much appreciated!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxiHlVaijYI&list=WL&index=21

There's a part in this video where Cobes said Scotty and Tina made him the Godfather to one of their kids. Has he ever spoken about spending time with his God Daughter before? She probably needs a strong male role model to step up since Scotty's death R.I.P

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I'm 29 and have two buddies who are brothers I have known my whole life and are family pretty much, I'm like a son to their parents and vice versa etc. My mom adored them like sons and she passed away ten years ago suddenly and so seeing them has always been a nice comfort as they really are there for me emotionally and are understanding of it all and remember her so well. One of the brothers moved out west but is back for a month and invited me out to play video games and drink beer last night just like old times. His daughter who he registered me as the godfather of was there and I had never really met her, she's 7. Point of this story is I was exhausted and stressed about not having a job but forced myself to go out cause I figured it's a rare occasion the three of us can get together and I didn't want to waste it. But I should have bailed. It ended up becoming more of a waste to go. I went and was an awkward mess. The daughter was like oh are you my uncle? And I was so heartwarmed and normally would have been so good at interacting with her and giving her a lasting impression of me but instead I was just a groggy awkward weakling. The remainder of the night was just terrible. We didn't really laugh or vibe much, it was just forced the whole night. I just feel like I've taken twenty steps back in one night in how I'm viewed as a person. They accept me for who I am and even in my tired state they still treated me as normal but it was obvious they could sense my discomfort. It's just hard you know. I don't have many friends, never had much of a girlfriend, I'm doing life backwards, but they've always supported me and pointed me in the right direction. But leaving this morning was such a dash for the door that I feel like they don't even want to see me again. I'm now back home at my dad's where I'm currently living, by myself, just trying to remain calm, as I just continue to feel ridiculously alone. I just wish I could have been more reciprocating to a sweet little girl acknowledging me by name, instead of just being like completely at a loss for words. I don't really have a lot of the typical things in adulthood going for me like family and extended friend networks and close rapport with a lot of people. So I try to make the most of what I have. But I just spiraled back into my dark hole and now feel like I'm nothing again. I feel so ashamed and honestly frightened. Frightened for myself, my future, my motivation to exist in the face of constant self sab

It’s a phase all her brothers went through as well, but she’s taken a bit longer than they did. Until yesterday, she would cry just from me walking in the room, her looking at me, etc. And if I tried to pick her up she’d scream like crazy. Her brothers, bless them, would try to tell her “it’s okay, it’s [my name]”, but she was still terrified.

A month ago, I was able to hold her for like 10 very tense and apprehensive minutes, but yesterday, I held her and took her out of her high chair, she smiled at me and even fell asleep in my arms. I try to play it cool around the fam, but it really makes me so happy.