Mum applauded for kicking pregnant daughter with six kids out of her house
There comes a point for all parents when you expect your children to pack up and leave home. Whether that’s when they go off to college or meet someone, it’s not unreasonable to want to have your own space back after years of sharing it with them.
One mum, however, has revealed how after a year, she’s been forced to kick her pregnant daughter, her boyfriend, and their six children out of her home. Wondering if she was in the wrong, she shared the situation on social media and was applauded for making the difficult decision.
Expanding on the story, the 45-year-old woman explained that her daughter is 27 and has six children aged between 10 years and 11 months. She continued: “My daughter works part-time, and her fiancé is a chef full-time. They have lived with us for the past year and a half, due to getting evicted from their last home.
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“The kids and they have our two upstairs bedrooms but that’s still crowded. They are constantly asking me for help with phone bills, my husband and I have asked for no rent so they’d be able to save money to get a home, which I do not believe they were doing.
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“I have put up with loud voices at all hours, and waking up at different hours to cater to the children because I love my grandchildren. I never complained to my daughter because I believe family is very important. It’s just that my children are all grown up, my youngest moved out 4 years ago and my husband and I had hopes to remodel. We didn’t expect them to be living here this long.”
Things came ahead for the beleaguered mum when her daughter gathered them around on Christmas Eve and announced she was pregnant with baby number seven. She went on: “Everyone was all excited, but I felt dread. That would mean another child in our house with not much room. I looked over at my husband and could tell he felt the same, we discussed it later and decided we were going to have to ask them to move out.”
After making the decision to ask her daughter and the kids to leave, the woman brought it up with them a few days later and said they had two months to find a place of their own. She continued: “My daughter started crying, saying she couldn’t believe I’d throw her to the streets for having a baby, that this was completely unfair and not enough time.
“I told her I was sorry, it was painful for me as well, but these living conditions were impossible. She demanded I give her more time or she’d go to the courts and I told her that the courts only give you 30 days. She then said my grandchildren were going to be homeless because I was selfish. She made a Facebook post asking for rooms to rent because ‘she’s pregnant and has nowhere to go and her family doesn’t give a sh*t about her’.”
Reading her post on Reddit people were aghast that she had put up with her daughter and her kids for so long. One person replied: “You’re not the a**hole here but it would have been better to set boundaries a long time ago. Your daughter and her boyfriend need to grow up and maybe this will be a life lesson to them. I do agree that it would be good to extend the deadline a bit, but then compromise by charging rent and for instance saving it for them for a future rental place.”
And someone else responded: “This makes me so f***ing angry, and upset! She is currently at 6 kids, working PT, with a boyfriend who works FT and still can't afford all their bills and other expenses and yet doesn't see a problem with pumping out baby number 7? You, and your husband, pick up all the slack even though you have put your child-rearing days behind you. And yet you being upset is UNFAIR to HER?! What a f***ing a**hole!!!”
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