While We Were Opening Christmas Gifts, My 5-Year-Old Yelled, ‘Yes! The Other Mom Kept Her Promise!’ – After a Long Pause, My Husband Finally Spoke

“I started thinking I might’ve misunderstood. I told her it was fine, but we would continue using our new babysitter. Then she asked me something…”

“She wanted to see Simon.

She said she missed him, and she just wanted to stop by to say hi.”

“What?” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

“I was going to,” he said quickly. “I just… I thought you’d say I was being stupid for even considering it.

She sounded sincere, and you know how sad Simon was when we told him Megan wouldn’t be babysitting him anymore. I thought one visit wouldn’t hurt.”

“This doesn’t sound like it was just one visit, Mike.”

He shook his head. “It wasn’t.

It really did seem harmless at first. She’d come by when you were at work, sit with him, play for a bit, then leave.”

“And then?” I asked.

He hesitated.

That pause told me everything.

“Then I overheard her one day telling him to call her his ‘other mom.’ Telling our son to keep their visits secret and not worry about you because I said it was okay. I felt sick. I realized then that it had gone too far.

I told her to stop coming. That she was crossing a line.”

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