Im in a committed relationship for 20 years , we basically raised the kids together, I was a single parent until then. Im 43 and have been a empty nester for 5 years. I struggled with the empty nest and this comment is thrown at me on how I wasted a whole year adjusting and how this took time away from them. I have two daughters 22 and 23. My 23 is in a commintted relationship and my youngest got married about 3 years ago and has a two year old son , her husband just signed up to the military end of last year. My daughter is pregnant and due the first of May. They left their apartment before he left to the army and decided to move in with friends. It was emotionally hard on my daughter and so I decided to let them move in with us. Well along with that fact my partner’s elderly mother moved in 10 months prior, for which I help out in her care and being there when my partner goes on business trips. My daughter pays rent and doesn’t really think she needs to participate in the family or help out. I think she feels this way because she pays rent. My partner is not happy with the arrangements because of this and really feels over burdened with them here. I think it’s more the not being part of the family, not helping out and kind of isolating her self in her room with the baby until I get home. Their relationship has always been strained, I’m told its because I coddled her .My other daughter and I are close, but she is doing good. She needed help in the beginning but she is doing fine. My partner feels my daughter and husband are taking advantage of us. My partner feels Im ignoring them by giving some of my attention to my daughter and grandson and doesn’t feel they should get any extra attention because they don’t help out at all. If I even sit with them I hear about it in a argument. My partner is very critical on how my daughter takes care of the baby, and thinks she’s lazy and tells me this quite frequently in arguments. With all the unsure things of the army things are not as easy as they could look. First boot camp( she cant be there), then 6wks training and then 3wks airborne and possibly to be shipped . My partner feels my daughter needs to be with her husband and I agree but up until now that was not possible, my partner does not understand that. Yes she should of never left the apartment in the first place, but I cant see I pregnant girl being alone with a two year old. So bottom line I have taken on everybody’s issues….it is totally stressing me out.
My partner feels ignored … and has no time with me, even sitting next to them with their mother right beside us 24/7. They feel I am preoccupied with my daughter’s issues… which I have been and that I shouldn’t be having any emotional issues, because having these takes away from our relationship and their attention. I would be dealing with my emotions whether she lived with me or not. I guess being in another state is hitting me in my emotions.
With a little encouragement, In a couple of weeks she is going to stay in a hotel for 5 wks with the baby and maybe go to airborne in Georgia for 3 wks and then if he ships she will come back here and get a apartment on her own until he gets back (but the baby will be coming somewhere in between Georgia and being possibly shipped if not a little after) or get established on a base where she knows no one and no one to help out. She wants to have the baby here because with no husband and in a strange place with no help to take care of two year old. My partner thinks she just needs to be with her husband but if he ships out ….A apartment here seems more sensible until he is done with his mission in Iraq and has a permanent station.
If she comes back here if he is shipped to have the baby, I’m going to get a fight all the way for being on call for the delivery and after care.
If she is somewhere else to have the baby and I go there I know I’m going to have another fight. Let alone to go visit.
I love my partner very much, whether my daughter is here in the house or not there is no alone time. I don’t think this is going to make a difference. I cant turn off my concerns like a light switch, can you only imagine me worrying about her being alone in a hotel while her husband is on base , she knows no one, she has no car , 7 months pregnant and maybe if he gets a weekend pass he will see her on weekends.
I know her issues are not my problem she is a married woman…. And my relationship is in jeopardy if I am preoccupied with her.
Tell me if I’m not doing things right, I can take it
2007-02-01
09:54:01
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