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We adopted my teenage son a year ago. He has been with us two years. He chose to leave the situation and asked us to adopt him.
At first we only had power of attorney, so good boundaries couldn't be set, because she would just take him away, so he went over there when she wanted (even though it wasn't safe), and called when she felt like it (once a week or once a month).
Since then, she has accused me of having sexual relations with my son, that I have stolen him, i have had to call the cops on her, we have called CPS on her for her two remaining kids numerous times. She just recently got arrested for a DUI.
She calls when she wants and promises things that won't happen to my son. She says that they will get together (we sit in a park next door when they do - she doesn't know we do that) and then she doesn't go through with it. My son has been diagnosed with PTSD and major depression. He is 16.
She won't let him call me mom in front of her, she gets drunk and calls and cusses me out. It hasn't happened in a while, but overall has happened too many times to count.
I am in the end of my Masters Degree. I had to take a test to get my degree. She called on the day of the test and started in on how she wants to see him and causing drama. I failed my test.
I have been given another opportunity to take the test. How do I eliminate this stress? Even when she is good, I'm stressed because I know it will go bad. I already blocked her from being able to call my son's cell phone because it was too stressful with her calling drunk and yelling at him. Do I block her from my phone? He wants a relationship with her and his siblings, how do I find a good medium? Have her call my husband's phone?
Help please.
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I'm assuming that the 16 year old is receiving treatment for his PTSD and not just being medicated? It is critical that he recieve treatment from a qualified therapist that isn't prescription happy. I would suggest that all of you get some type of counselling. I'm disappointed that CPS hasn't suggested this.
Remember, you aren't his mother and it is completely understandable for her to be upset hearing him call you that. It saddens me that you don't have empathy or insight on why that would be upsetting :(
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That IS a real problem with older adopted kids. I tried setting boundaries for a long time with my adopted kids' 1st mom, she consistently ignored those boundaries for a long time. Maybe you can set a boundary of weekly calls between your son & his siblings only, monthly get togethers with siblings at a public place... something like that. It's not easy, but maybe it's doable. We eventually had to cut off contact due to the serious drama hurting my kids, even though we were trying to stay connected to the little siblings. We were really left with no choice. It's been hard, & not the way we wanted it, but we're all doing so much better now. I really hope you guys can find a way to maintain the sibling relationships and eliminate a lot of the drama.
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