‘For my children he was nothing more than a cozy houseguest’
That she let another man into the house shortly after the divorce was not taken with thanks by her in-laws. Yet she would do it again in a heartbeat.
Sabina (36), mother of Lola (10) and Vic (8):
“Since his divorce he had been bouncing from guest room to guest sofa, I had an entire floor to spare. I had known Manfred from before, so when he was back on the street three months after our first kiss, it seemed only natural that I offered him my house.
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A helping hand
The children loved it, a year after the divorce finally a man in the house again – and incidentally a fourteen-year-old stepbrother. My environment thought otherwise. My ex-in-laws cut off contact, my brothers did not consider him welcome at family functions. How did I get it into my head to let a man into our lives so quickly? They had a point, because a year later he had flown again.
“How did I get it into my head to let a man into our lives so quickly?”
Still, I would do it again: you have to help people in need. To my children he was no more than a cozy guest who happened to sleep in their mother’s bed. By the way, I never spoke to my in-laws again when I lived alone again.”
This article was previously published in Kek Mama.
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