u/whateverxoxo_

are there any other EOW parents in here who are struggling with “parenting“?

my kid has been really testing limits for the last 2 years. I know I cannot control the other parent and their rules and their household but it’s so tough.

my kid is lying, stealing, and learning to manipulate.

I just found out from another parent that my kid got into a fight after school. apparently she screamed and cussed at another girl, making her cry.

I don’t know what to do. other parent doesn’t care at all. they think our kid “can do no wrong”

I made an emotional decision tonight to call the non emergency number on my neighbor and his kid.

this kid has been riding four wheelers, dirt bikes, whatever else, in the middle of our neighborhood up and down the road constantly. every single day for months until about 9-9:30pm. I put my son down every night at 7 for bed (I know that’s early) and he’s constantly waking up and crying because of the “scary noise outside.” I was done. done putting up with it. we moved here 8 months ago and it has been CONSTANT. I bought white noise machines, sound proof foam, headphones, whatever else to block out some of the noise and it doesn’t help.

tonight was my last straw. a few nights ago I laid my son down for bed, sat down to watch tv and I hear BANG BANG on my door. it was the same kid and his friend playing ding dong ditch except they decided to bang on my door. it scared the shit out of me. woke up my kid. now tonight the noise got to be so much. I’m over stimulated, I’ve barely slept, my kid won’t sleep. so I called. I told them not to come to my house so my neighbor wouldn’t know it was me… guess who knocked on my door 5 minutes later. the cops. guess whos outside? the whole neighborhood. clearly it was me. now I can’t stop thinking about neighbor retaliation and I’m spiraling.

would you be concerned if your 10 year old came over and told you about how the other parent sleeps all day and works all night? I wasn’t aware of this when we went to court.

our child does have a step parent, who also sleeps all day and works the late shift but is usually home by 1am. she also said that she’s extremely bored all day now that’s it’s summer and doesn’t know what to do.

would you address this? or leave it be?

advice appreciated

what would you do if you found videos of your child's other parent, completely wasted? I’m talking, people passed out on the floor, puke, yelling, falling, etc.

I’m so incredibly anxious and I’m not sure why. I’ve posted in here before about my SD and the wild things her and her mom put me through. The last few months have been consistently better. SD has been weirdly nice and so has BM. Any tips lol I’m so nervous. ugh.

VERY long story short, I had to drop out of the wedding a week prior to it due to serious medical conditions and a medical emergency.

I’m now getting the cold shoulder. Bride said she “understood but this causes serious stress for me.”

I totally get this being stressful! But now she won’t speak to me at all. She refused to call me so we could talk about it. She replaced me before even responding to me. She hasn’t even asked how I’m doing. I get it, this wedding is extremely important to her but she’s supposed to be my best friend. I felt horrible enough not going to the wedding but now I genuinely think our friendship has changed. I’m not sure why I came here. I guess to see if something similar has happened to anyone and how you navigated this.