“‘Why does that bitch come to visit here?’ my son asked
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Ah, children. When they throw a giant blabbermouth into the world and you try to reduce the damage with the blush of shame on your cheeks.
Manon (33), mother of a 6-year-old son, stepmother of an 8-year-old daughter.
“With Janneke, my friend’s ex, I am, to put it mildly, not friends. Still, I think that for the sake of their daughter we should be able to go through one door together. So I occasionally invite her for coffee and then we both do our best to have a normal conversation. Likewise last month.
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Completely ready
Janneke had once again wanted to adjust the co-parenting schedule, which did not suit us. But because my boyfriend cheated on her (not with me) she thinks he is always zero-one behind and should do what she says. I was completely done with it and walked on the phone to a friend about what ‘that bitch’ had demanded again. Not neat, no, but in the heat of the moment do you ever say something.
Flabbergasted
Not long after that, Janneke came for coffee and it turned out that my son had not been playing upstairs at all at the time of the telephone conversation, as I thought, because Janneke had not yet taken off her coat when he asked me: ‘Why is that twig woman coming? visiting here?’
Only with the utmost effort could I convince Janneke that of course I had not said that about her, but about someone else. I don’t think she believed any of it.”
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