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Woman’s 16-Year-Old Stepson Steals Her Car, She Then Calls Off Her Engagement To His Dad
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Woman’s 16-Year-Old Stepson Steals Her Car, She Then Calls Off Her Engagement To His Dad

Woman's 16-Year-Old Stepson Steals Her Car, She Then Calls Off Her Engagement To His DadOn-Call Doctor Is Furious After Stepson Took Her Car When She Told Him Not To, Drama Ensues After He Tells Her She's On-Call Doctor Is Livid After Teen Stepson Ignores Her Warning And Entitled Teen Takes Stepmom's Car Without Permission, She Threatens To Call The Cops If The Car Is Not Back In 20 MinutesOn-Call Doctor Is Furious After Stepson Took Her Car When She Told Him Not To, Threatens To Call The PoliceWoman Is Shocked After Teen Stepson Woman Punishes Entitled Stepson Who Took Her Car Despite Her Saying No, Drama Escalates When Fiancé Takes Son's Side“Am I A Jerk For Giving My Stepson A 20-Minute Time Limit To Return My Car Before I Phone The Police?”
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While the stepparent and stepchild dynamic can be something wonderful, this story is about the opposite. Disrespect, dishonesty, and disappointment.

Recently, Reddit user DrDoneWithBS turned to the popular ‘Am I the [Jerk]?’ subreddit for parental and relationship advice.
In her post, the woman detailed the time her fiancé’s 16-year-old son stole her car to take his friends to the mall, asking whether or not she was too harsh to threaten him with calling the police.

Get ready folks, the twists and turns in this story make it an equally compelling and infuriating read.

This doctor needed her car at a moment’s notice when she was on call

Image credits: State Farm

But her stepson secretly took it to go to the mall

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Image credits: Alex Green

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After her story went viral, the woman released a few updates

The biggest one being about her breakup with Dale

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Image credits: DrDoneWithBS

Many of us have a hard time building trust and can be more susceptible to anger, frustration, and depression. It sometimes seems impossible to trust ourselves, let alone our children.

And it doesn’t just happen. Trust in a relationship takes time to build and requires both people actively work to maintain it. It’s a two-way street. For a parent and child, trust is a foundation that benefits both of them:

  • For kids and teens, knowing their parents trust them can deepen their sense of safety in the world, support their self-esteem and confidence as they try new things, and assure them they have someone to go to when things don’t go according to plan;
  • For parents and caregivers, having a trusting relationship with your child means you’re more likely to have an open dialogue and a strong relationship. Trust can lead to upfront conversations where you can be your child’s sounding board or support system, instead of your child catching you off-guard through lies or going around your back.

However, breaches of trust are to be expected, especially as a child starts to push boundaries to test their independence. Depending on the impact of their actions, parents should work with them to decide on appropriate consequences, which could range from a simple chat about expectations to the removal of privileges.

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In fact, research suggests that kids do better when their parents show affection and enforce age-appropriate limits on their behavior. There is also evidence linking permissive parenting with the development of poor self-control. So it sounds like the author of the post handled the situation pretty well if you ask me.

People on the internet have unanimously taken her side

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Caro Caro
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was right, right and right. But what made me nearly spit out my coffee was that this twat Dale called his mother to see if someone actually cared about his feelings. HAHAHAAAAAA

Simba
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG she almost married a manchild, someone who never grew up since 14 when he had the boy! She dodged two life-destroying bullets, he and his son!

Diane Knight
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The boy is still growing and acquiring wisdom, so there's hope yet for him and his mom is still in the picture to guide him in the right direction. The guy is a big problem. The bullet she did dodge was the fact she's not a legal parent yet to him, therefore is not legal for her to insure on her policy, so in the event of an accident that would be very costly if he had passengers of more than one. As the story brought up that he could not find all the friends, plural, so it would be one thing if it's a scratch and another if other cars were involved, and injuries to half a dozen people.

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Caro Caro
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was right, right and right. But what made me nearly spit out my coffee was that this twat Dale called his mother to see if someone actually cared about his feelings. HAHAHAAAAAA

Simba
Community Member
2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG she almost married a manchild, someone who never grew up since 14 when he had the boy! She dodged two life-destroying bullets, he and his son!

Diane Knight
Community Member
2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The boy is still growing and acquiring wisdom, so there's hope yet for him and his mom is still in the picture to guide him in the right direction. The guy is a big problem. The bullet she did dodge was the fact she's not a legal parent yet to him, therefore is not legal for her to insure on her policy, so in the event of an accident that would be very costly if he had passengers of more than one. As the story brought up that he could not find all the friends, plural, so it would be one thing if it's a scratch and another if other cars were involved, and injuries to half a dozen people.

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