My mom has a boyfriend. He is this Jewish dude that she met at Lowe's. He went to high school with my dad (small town weirdness). He looks very old, but my mom thinks he is just the bees knees.
I met him at Christmas. He is really quiet.
I am pretty "whatever" about the situation. I want my mom to be happy, but my mom seems to be one of these girls that doesn't make the best relationship-guy choices. It's quite hypocritical because my mom is pretty set in her beliefs. She has nagged my cousins, my brothers about dating people with not the same beliefs and how she believes this isn't a good thing. I mean, afterall, her and my dad, though their divorce had nothing to do with their differences, they were on entirely different planes as it came to faith thus family choices.
I confronted my mom a while back about her choice, basically, just asking her to own up to the hypocritical-ness and asking if she really thought this was the most brilliant idea. She likes to say "i know we could never get married". HELLO! he is a strict Jew (follows the eating, pays to go to jewish temple, the works) which would mean he couldn't marry a christian. Of course, my mom as a christian supposedly believes that one should not be "unequally yoked" by marrying a person that doesn't follow the ways of Jesus like she does.
there is more ODD backstory. He is divorced, supposedly his wife got on drugs and left his family. There are some other odd things that sorta don't add up, but that's for another time if I feel like it's worth my time to rehash, but right now, not really. I chalk it up that parents are people that make good and poor decisions but they are just people!
I don't get on the phone or skype and talk to her boyfriend. That is not my thing. I'm not there and frankly, I don't need to love him or be best friends with him. I'm not the one dating the guy.
My mom keeps trying to tell me about his kids' kids. At Christmas when I was about to leave, she was like "i wish you could have met [blah, blah insert kids' names]. I said "why?"
now today my mom is sending me iphone video of her boyfriend's grandchildren.
umm. what am I supposed to do with these?
why do I want to see these? =====> don't.
i replied "i'm glad you found some grandchildren."
i mean, really...what else am I supposed to say?
neither of my brothers are married or have kids, so I guess she is participating in the build-a-family program. It's sorta like build-a-bear but it hasn't hit retail yet.
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