You know, I hate to beat a dead horse (no I don’t) but I just gotta write about how much of a twit my stepson’s mother is.
My stepson has a cyst on his tailbone. He called his mother to tell her about it. She scolded him (or at least asked) why he had waited so long to get it treated. Um, to my way of thinking my stepson has not gone to the doctor or the dentist because of the way she acted over his health insurance. See he has health insurance through her; once she kicked him out and he started living with us she told him she was canceling his health insurance because he was no longer living under her roof: “Have your dad put yo on his insurance” was what she said. She didn’t cancel it but let my stepson believe she had. He only found out he still had insurance when he had to go to the hospital after being beaten up defending some friends.
Then there is the fact the kid doesn’t have a whole lot of money. Sure, he does not spend wisely but his lack of money is only exacerbated by the fact that he has a huge truck payment (his mom helped him get the truck) and he owes my husband money, in part due to poor choices he made trying to please his mother (going into the Navy) and also from her kicking him out of her house and taking back the car she had previously turned over (my stepson had paid for part of it) to him as his high school graduation gift.
Mother of the year (at least to this kid) she ain’t!
Then I think of all the child support my husband paid. You’d think some of it, a little bit, could have been put aside for the kid for a car/truck or for school (he had to pay for EMT class on his own and wants to go on to be a paramedic). Yes, I said it! I know kids are expensive but my husband paid over $600 a month in support for one kid…she was support her kid financially also (they had a 60/40 split) so I don’t think it is unrealistic or mean of me to expect that she could have been putting a little aside in savings for this kid. I am not talking big money, just a modest savings for the aforementioned classes and perhaps a down payment on a truck or housing. But no, my stepson has not received any financial help from his mother since she kicked him out (it has all fallen to my husband and I)…except she co-signed for him to get his much desired truck that he had trouble making payments on.
Okay, so that is a lot of my problem with this woman the last few years. I always thought she was a twit too, and for a lot of different reasons. But then my stepson told me this when talking about taking himself to the doctors:
“Well when I broke my collarbone I took myself to the hospital.”
“What!? You went by ambulance.”
“Well I was by myself in the back of the ambulance.”
“Huh? Wasn’t there a paramedic with you when you went in the ambulance?”
“Well yeah but I was by myself.”
“Um no, there was the paramedic and somebody driving the ambulance.”
“Well my mom said I took myself to the hospital so…”
UGH! So dumb!! Extremely stupid and twit-ish. Sure, he went to the hospital without a parent (he was a minor at the time) but he hardly “took himself” to the hospital alone. He was a teen at the time too. But because his mom told him he took himself to the hospital the paramedic and the EMT that were in the ambulance don’t count. UGH. She is such a twit…
and these are the reasons (in part) my stepson is (a) somewhat a twit at times too, and (b) does not take proper care of himself in regard to health care. He is constantly seeking approval from that dumb-ass of a mother and she keeps screwing him around one way or another.
Jacquelyn's Space 
Leave a comment