Adult stepson will ruin my marriage soon
I am worried sick. My husband and I have recently relocated from NY to warmer state. I had a lot of stress back in NY including job stress, we chucked it all and were lucky enough to find an afffordable place in our new state. The problem is that I have knownmy husband for 12 years, married for almost 5, not by any of his doing but he has an estranged relationship with his 23 year old son. He did not see him because of the mother, there were support issues as well though no fault of my husband that too with a 2 year court situation was taken care of. His son is married (separated now, again), has 2 children, 1 step child all under 5, left the military and now has decided he wants to live with us. He is rude, manipulative and disrespectful, the problem is my husband refuses to see this. Its like he knows but ignores it. Granted, he has always been very good to my family, he is godfather to one of my neices, but he brings this up whenever I mention his son, its like I cant say ANYTHING negative about him. He one time called out of the blue and said he needed 300 dollars, for what? I am still trying to find out, since I had the money, it had to come out of my account, there was another time we had plans (we live in a beach community) his son calls and boom, the plans change and we have to drive 1.5 hours just to take him to eat. All the vists with him are always bad, he is sullen and always has these snide remarks about his father or comments when we are together, I sm so sick of being the buffer and dealing with him. Basically, he is not a very nice youmg man. Now, since he got into a situation with his mom, he sent a text with sime stupid pretense so he could wind up living with us, well here is the rub, my hubby is on disability, I have not found a job yet, and he plans on quitting his job and "go to school" with money from the government..BS I say. In addition, we have a 700 sq. ft 1 bedroom apartment and a loveseat, when asked where is his stuff going to go, will he get storage, his anwer is "i dont know" when my husband asked too many questions he gets mad and says " if you dont want me to live there just say so" like a real brat. My fear is that if this happens my marriage is over, I came here to get rid of the stresses in my life, I am 51 years old, and my husband would definately be on his son's side rather than mine, which to some extent I understand. I just dont know what to do, He gets angry and pretty mucn told me as did most people, the kid comes first, trouble is, he is not a kid. he is 23 years old. Should I make some plans to move, should this happen because there is no way I will be able to live in this little apartment with this person, my marriage as I know it will be in serious jeppardy!
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I'm sorry you are having to
I'm sorry you are having to go through this. To me, your DH is being extremely disrepectful of you and your feelings. This "kid" is 23 years old for goodness sakes! My own parents told me that once I move out of their house, I cannot move back in (unless it was an emergency of course). In no way, should your DH allow his son into y'alls home. If you and SS had a good relationship and you were on board with it, that would be one thing (and only if it was a temporary situation), but you clearly don't want him there and your DH should respect that.
If I were you, I would have a back up plan. If you cannot see yourself living this way, then yes I think you should be prepared. You need to look out for yourself as it seems that your DH isn't doing that for you.
I would pack up and leave
I would pack up and leave them to rot together. If the situation were reversed, your kid with problems...what we HE do? What would he expect you to do? This is a no win situation. If his son is shutting him up by being rude and threatening "well if you don't want me here" crap. That sums it up. He will keep that up as long as it is effective.
You are the path of least resistance. You will be inconvenienced and treated unfairly simply because you don't attach any consequences to the actions.
His son, however, makes him pay dearly any time he's challenged or questioned. What ever you do, do it fast. These things get out of control quickly.
You do not have the room for
You do not have the room for him, plain and simple. This shouldn't even be a discussion.