There was this video circulating the internets a while back that’s stayed on my mind of a mother lambasting her ex-boyfriend for bringing his son McDonald’s to eat. What’s wrong with that, you might think, othen than it’s junk food? Well she has 3 other children who are not his, so she thinks it’s not fair that he only bought food his child.
Of course it’s not his responsibility. But he’s a bit of an asshole for making things strange and uncomfortable for all of the kids, including his own. The kind thing to do would be to take his kid out, if only for a ride somewhere, so he could eat in peace.
How does he think his son feels, eating in front of his siblings when they don’t have any? If he’s a normal child, he’ll want to share. Kids don’t split themselves up like that, usually. Especially if they have the same mom. Heck my some of my siblings and I have different mothers, same dad, and my dad wouldn’t let us call each other ‘half’ siblings or none of that. I bet this little boy and his siblings will share out the meal.
Listen…my dad used to do this and we were/are ALL his kids!! LOL
The mom needs to get her act together. Go to food banks, learn to cook from scratch, something, but keep food in the house. I was a poor single mother before I married so I understand her dismay at not having food in the house, but she needs to learn how to make do.
She also needs to understand, this man is not her husband. A husband would take on her kids as his own, that’s expected in a marriage. He’s not even her boyfriend, boyfriends will sometimes take care of kids not theirs. It’s very common for men in love to take care of kids not theirs, just as common for men out of love to abandon even their own kids. This seems like it was just a hookup, jump-off type of relationship, but since he stuck around for his kid she thinks he’s supposed to do what a husband would simply because he didn’t abandon his kid. Like the other baby daddies apparently did.