PARENTS OF ESTRANGED ADULT CHILDREN Community Group
Parents with adult children who no longer communicate with them are becoming more and more common these days. This group is for those who need to connect with others in similar situations who understand the grief, pain, and array of emotions that they go through daily. If you are seeking support from other parents who are suffering, a place to vent your feelings, and...
this is sort of a long story so here I go.
My 2 older sons and I have had a falling out and now they won’t speak to me and they won’t let me see my grandsons. I let both boys and their wives and children live with me several times thru the years for free. At the end of 2017 I went into the traveling nurses program and got my first assignment in Nevada (my home is in Texas) and I sat my 2 older boys down and told them that they needed to split the electric and water in half and the house payment we would split 3 ways that was agreed upon. My oldest son is 29 and I told hims while he was in school they could stay with me they have been living with me since 2016. (Free) He went into school and changed his major 3 times in the course of a year. My middle son hadn’t started school but had planned on it and his wife wasn’t working. Well with all of this I still let these families live with me for free including buying groceries for the 4 adults, 3 children and myself and my husband. My oldest son bought my car from me and paid off what I told him was owed on it well I gave him the wrong amount on the payoff and so I talked with my husband and came to the agreement that we would pay off the balance instead of telling them that we owed more. I started to get the money from them for their cell phones and the utilities and eventually I started charging them for rent. I spent 7 months in Nevada on my assignment and in May of last year my mother fell terminally ill. I came back to be closer to her so I worked in Kansas until her passing in October the 16th.. This was and has been a very stressful time due to some sibling rivalry after my mother’s death. 1 week after my mother’s death my oldest son accused me of stealing $7000.00 from him and his wife and convinced my middle son and his wife I stole money from them. Of course this upset me, furiated me,shocked me and I was very angry and sent a blast text telling them they needed to get out of my house and right after that I text them and told them that I didn’t want that I couldn’t do that to my grandsons. I told them they could stay until their apartments were ready that they were moving into in 3 weeks.. I also found out in the time my Mother was ill that my boys tried to have me committed into a psychiatric facility and informed my brother they would take over my house. My husband and I had been separated most of this time all of this is going on. My husband and I are now back together and trying to repair us,but I can’t get over how these adult children are acting. My husband and I have 4 other sons that we haven’t helped out like this or to this degree.. I have been totally disrespected by these 4 people and they are using my grandchildren against me. Both boys wives and I have been extremely close and now both girls have told me I was the sorriest excuse for a human being, I was a terrible fake person and that all the wanted to do was stay here and go to school.. I feel like I did everything right for these people and I get damned eveytime I turn around.. I have kept up getting my grandsons presents for the holidays and went to all their games.. And I’m still being damned.. I need help I feel like I’m in a catch 22 situation. I have apologized to everyone of them to lengthy extent.