Single parents: how would you have handled this?

Anonymous

For almost a year, I’ve been dating a guy that has a 17-yr-old daughter. At first he just had weekend visitation so I never met her. Then last month he got full custody back. He also has an adult son that lives out of state, although I’ve never met the son in real life. I have spoken to him on the phone, and he gave me the seal of approval.

last week I was finally able to meet his daughter and I thought everything went fine. He was texting me like normal throughout the week since meeting her, but then last night out of the blue, he cussed me out. Said all kinds of cruel names to me and insinuated I was cheating on him and all of this other stuff that’s not true. I asked him why he was acting that way because I hadn’t done anything wrong to him.

finally, he said that his daughter didn’t like me. I asked him why because I thought our meeting had been fine. He said he didn’t ask her. Then he said he wanted me to come over one last time but I had to sneak into the house and all this stuff and I said well that’s awkward because your daughter doesn’t mind me apparently.

I’m still confused as to why he would not ask his daughter why she doesn’t like me and why he has to get permission from her before people can come over to his house.

Wouldn’t you be curious as to why your nearly-adult daughter doesn’t like someone that you’ve been dating for almost a year? He told me a long time ago that if his kids saw how happy he was with me, that they should be happy too. But apparently that was just BS. And when I was getting ready to meet her for the first time, he told me to takeoff my glasses and was kind of nitpicking how I looked… and it’s like “is she gonna judge me because I wear glasses?”, like wtf?

he has said numerous times that I am sweeter and nicer to him than any other woman he’s been with because he has been with some really horrible people that have caused him physical harm. I feel like there’s got to be some way to work around this.

Updates
9 mo
I meant to say that his daughter doesn’t like me, not that she doesn’t mind me
Single parents: how would you have handled this?
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