He’s still so young, yet he wants to tie his life to someone else’s children…
I always knew the day would come when my son, my only heir, would announce that he met the one, the only one, and wants to spend his life with her. But I never expected it to happen so soon.
He’s just 26. The age when life is just beginning, when all paths are open—career building, traveling, gaining new knowledge, discovering oneself. Yet instead, he’s planning to get married.
And not just marry, but to a woman who’s already a mother twice over.
Starting from scratch
My wife and I never had wealth handed to us. We built our business from the ground up, starting small, with no support or outside help. We invested years of hard work, sleepless nights, and faced the fear of failure.
Now we have a stable income and a comfortable life. We’re not ones to squander money, but we can afford many things: travel, quality education, comfort.
Most importantly, we’ve given our son everything he could dream of. He received a top-notch education and interned overseas. Now he works with us, gaining experience, and earns a good salary.
You’d think his future was certain—stability, success, comfort. But it’s all slipping away before our eyes.
His choice—a source of pain
The past months have been a nightmare for my wife and me.
Our son declared he plans to marry.
But not to a suitable girl who shares his values and would be his equal in life.
Instead, to a woman who’s already raising two children.
I tried to understand. I asked myself—what did he see in her? What drew him to her? He’s successful, intelligent, with a bright future ahead. And she… She’s ordinary, with no particular ambitions, and her children, they say, are unruly.
We talked to him, explained that they have nothing in common. They don’t even share interests. She’s from a different world. We’ve seen her. Beautiful—yes. But that’s it.
How can you build a family on appearance alone?
Can we stop him?
We don’t know what to do.
If we apply pressure, we might worsen things. At his age, bans won’t work—he might just turn his back on us.
Yet, watching him ruin his future is unbearable.
My wife and I have discussed drastic measures.
If he wants independence so much, he should experience it fully.
Perhaps we should cut his salary at the company or remove bonuses? Let’s see how he manages to support not just himself, but someone else’s children too.
Or maybe we take back the apartment we purchased in his name? Let him find out what the adult world truly means.
We don’t want to resort to such actions, but it seems we have no other choice.
We fear he’ll regret this. That in a few years, when faced with reality, he’ll realize he made a mistake. But it might be too late.
So now we face the decision—let him make this mistake, or do everything in our power to stop him?
