He’s so young and already wants to tie his life to someone else’s children…
I always knew this day would come. The day my son, my only heir, would announce he’d met the one, his soulmate, and wanted to commit to her for life. But I didn’t expect it to happen so soon.
He’s only 26. An age where life is just beginning, all avenues are open, a time to build a career, travel, gain new knowledge, and discover himself… Yet instead, he’s planning to marry.
And not just marry, but wed a woman who has been a mother twice over already.
Starting from Scratch
My wife and I began with nothing. We were never wealthy. We built our business from the ground up all on our own. No support, no help from others. We invested years of hard work, had sleepless nights, and faced the fear of failure.
Now we enjoy a stable income and a good life. We don’t throw money around, but we can afford many things: travel, quality education, and comfort.
Most importantly, we gave our son everything one could dream of. He received a prestigious education, had an internship abroad, and now works at our firm, learning and earning a good salary.
One would think his future is set — stability, success, comfort. But everything is falling apart before our eyes.
His Choice, Our Heartache
The past few months have been a nightmare for my wife and me.
Our son announced he wants to get married.
But not to a respectable young woman who would share his views, be his equal, and walk through life beside him.
Instead, he wants to marry a woman who’s already raising two children.
I tried to understand. I asked myself — what did he see in her? What captivated him? He’s successful, smart, with his whole future ahead. And she… she’s ordinary, not particularly ambitious, and her children are rumored to be ill-mannered.
We talked to him, explained that there’s nothing really connecting them. They don’t even have common interests. She’s from a different world. We’ve seen her. Beautiful — yes. But that’s where it ends.
How can you build a family on looks alone?
Can We Stop Him?
We don’t know what to do.
If we start pressuring him, we might only make things worse. Banning him at his age won’t work — he might simply turn away from us.
But watching him destroy his future is unbearable.
My wife and I considered drastic measures.
If he wants this independence so much, maybe he should try it.
Maybe we should cut his salary at the company, remove bonuses? Let’s see how he manages to support not just himself, but someone else’s children.
Or perhaps we should take back the apartment we bought in his name? Let him learn what the real adult world is like.
We don’t want to resort to such measures, but it seems we have no other choice.
We fear he’ll regret this. That in a couple of years, faced with reality, he’ll realize he made a mistake. But it will be too late.
And now we face the question — do we let him make this mistake or do everything in our power to stop him?
