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He is good and we love each other, he help me with his baby brother but whenever he is with his friends, he acts differently and he doesn't want me to be involved with anything around them. Am I overreacting or he's being rude?
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- This is normal. He's at an age where he is distancing himself from "mommy". He doesn't want to be seen as a child around his friends. Distaning himself from his mother is a way to do that. He'll continue to declare his independence for several more years.
He's probably not really ashamed. It's just part of the "weening process".1|00|0Is this still revelant?Yes, you have to accept it and not try to do anything about it.
You are looking at it as something wrong that should be corrected, but it's not. Trying to do something about it will probably just make it worse.
- He's being rude, and you're probably overreacting.
A lot of guys go through this phase, he might have confidence issues that are deeply rooted. (meaning it would be hard to tell)
I think you should sit down with him at some point and tell him how it makes you feel.0|00|0Is this still revelant?
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Anonymous8 moPartly it's about him trying to grow into a young man, and not a boy looked after by mommy.
But I suspect there's also the fact that his friends likely make comments about you.1|00|0This answers on point. This is exactly what's going on. So how do you fix it? You don't you gotta just understand that he has to figure it out on his own he's gonna have to check his homeboys. His dad should take this opportunity to give his son some guidance on how to be a man. A little bit of shit talk is normal but if it's making him uncomfortable then he needs to make his friends show some respect. Me and my friends use to beat the crap out of each other all the time and we would be best friends again when we were done. This stuff is going to define the kind of man he's going to be. Is he going to act like he doesn't see the guy across the street beating up his girlfriend or is he gonna go make him stop?
- He hit puberty! :-) He just wants to define his own personality towards friends... and parents are just embarrassing factors to them. Don't sweat it, he'll grow out of it eventually.1|00|0
- You are embarrassing him..
By being his mom!..
😂🤣😂🤣It's a teenage boy thing..1|00|0🤣😂🤣 That's the thing about teenage..
Everything is right & wrong.
He feel a hole where is would have liked his mom to be at..
But in front of his friends he is struggling to prove he is a man, everyday.. So he can't look up to your support in front of them..
Treat him like a man in front of his friends..
But in family environment you can treat him like a kid.. He wouldn't mind that..- Show All Show Less
Boys are weird,
you girls would breastfeed your husband's too if it was socially acceptable 😂🤣😂..
Hey being a man is complicated than it looks..See.. My guess was right..
One boob baby is drinking, while other boobs hubby is stuck on other...
*Rest joke in Pm*
- Probably because you're 25 and hot... he feels his step mother would be a distraction.
How old is he by the way.0|00|0 - I think its maybe due to the age difference between you and him which makes him uncomfortable when he is with his friends1|00|0
Yea because then your age would have same as his friends mother age.
I had a girl in my class she also had a stepmom who was just 10 years elder to her and she embarassed to even call her mom, i dont know what was there equation at home but publicly she didn't liked it
- He’s just being a kid. No kid wants their parents around when their friends are there. Definitely do not take this remotely personal. Just kids being kids.1|00|0
- Yes. They are kids. Kids don't want there parents around them. Let alone there step parents. I wouldn't take it personally. Your not there to be his friend anyway.1|00|0
- Children want time away from their parents just as parents want time away from their children and that is just the way it is.1|00|0
- stop embarrassing him 😂1|00|0
well when he is around his friends dont baby him, basically dont treat him like a kid, i know you are a mother so im not saying dont be a mother, if it gets rough, you do what you gotta do but if he is with his friends like just sitting eith his friends or someshit there's really nothing you should say lol, thing is kids when they are with friends they dont want their friends to see that their mom is babying them and shit
- Why would he be ashamed of you?1|00|0
- What age is he?1|00|0
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I imagined a situation in which you are 25 and the dad was 40+. Then your stepson could've found it awkward that his dad dated someone so young that she looks like his daugther.
- How old is he?1|00|0
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