He’s still so young and already wants to tie his life to someone else’s kids…
I always knew that this day would come. The day my son, my only descendant, would say he met the one, his only one, and wants to spend his life with her. Yet, I didn’t think it would happen so soon.
He’s just 26. A time when life is just starting, when every path is open, when he could build a career, travel, learn new things, and discover himself… But instead, he plans to marry.
And not just marry, but wed a woman who is already a mother twice over.
We started from scratch
My wife and I were never wealthy. We built our business from the ground up, starting small. Without any support or outside help, we invested years of hard work, sleepless nights, and endured the fear of failure.
Now, we have a stable income and a good life. We’re not extravagant, but we can afford a lot: travel, quality education, and comfort.
Most importantly, we have given our son everything one could dream of. He received a prestigious education, interned abroad, and now works at our company, gaining experience and drawing a good salary.
It seemed like his future was set — stability, success, and comfort. But everything is crumbling before our eyes.
His choice — our distress
These last months have been a real nightmare for my wife and me.
Our son announced he wants to get married.
And not to a respectable girl who would share his views, be his equal, and walk through life with him.
No, he wants to marry a woman who is already raising two children.
I tried to understand. I asked myself — what did he see in her? What attracted him? He’s successful, intelligent, with his whole life ahead of him. And she… Plain, with no particular ambitions, and her children, they say, are poorly mannered.
We talked with him, explained that they have no common ground. They don’t even share interests. She’s from a different world. We’ve met her. Beautiful — yes. But that’s it.
How can a family be built on looks alone?
Can we stop him?
We’re at a loss for what to do.
If we start to pressure him, we might just worsen the situation. At his age, prohibitions don’t work — he might just turn away from us.
But we can’t stand by and watch him throw his future away either.
My wife and I have discussed drastic measures.
If he wants independence so badly, we might let him have it.
Perhaps we should cut his salary at the company, remove bonuses? Let’s see how he manages to support not only himself but someone else’s children as well.
Or maybe we should even take back the flat we bought in his name? Let him see what the real adult world is like.
We don’t want to resort to such methods, but it seems we have no other choice.
We fear he’ll regret it. That in a few years, when reality hits, he’ll realize he made a mistake. But by then, it might be too late.
Now we face the question — should we let him make this mistake or do everything in our power to stop him?
