{"id":73379,"date":"2024-07-19T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=73379"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:23:40","slug":"my-son-is-ashamed-of-me-and-said-i-dont-want-people-to-think-we-came-together-so-i-repaid-him-in-the-same-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/my-son-is-ashamed-of-me-and-said-i-dont-want-people-to-think-we-came-together-so-i-repaid-him-in-the-same-manner\/","title":{"rendered":"My Son Is Ashamed Of Me And Said: \u201cI Don\u2019t Want People To Think We Came Together,\u201d So I Repaid Him In The Same Manner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 14-year-old son started being ashamed of my husband and me about 2 years ago. We thought this would pass, but it has gotten worse. We\u2019re just regular people, but you\u2019d think we\u2019re weirdos the way he treats us.\n</p><p>He tells us things like, \u201cDon\u2019t come to my games,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t leave me right out front\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll go ahead at the mall, so people don\u2019t think we come together.\u201d The list goes on and on. He\u2019s great when we buy him something or do what he wants, but lately, he\u2019s been treating us like garbage.\n</p><p>A couple of days ago, I drove 40 minutes to pick him up from a school event, and he made me wait for him a block away. When he saw me, there were other kids around, he turned red and stopped. He waited for the kids to pass, then got in the car, slid down, and said, \u201cDrive.\u201d I\u2019ve told him how all this makes us feel, but he doesn\u2019t care. Well, I\u2019ve had enough.\n<figure id='\"attachment_73380\"' aria-describedby='\"caption-attachment-73380\"' style='\"width:' class='\"wp-caption' aligncenter><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"size-full' wp-image-73380 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/pexels-photo-4842218.jpeg%5C%22" alt='\"My' son is ashamed of me and said width='\"600\"' height='\"400\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pexels-photo-4842218.jpeg' https: sizes='\"auto,'><figcaption id='\"caption-attachment-73380\"' class='\"wp-caption-text\"'>Image for illustrative purposes only. (\u00a9 Cottonbro Studio\/ Pexels)\n<p>That night, he needed a new t-shirt for an event, so as I was driving to the store, I said, \u201cDuck!\u201d and pushed his head down. I then told him that I thought the person driving around was a friend from college, and I didn\u2019t want him to see us together. When he asked me why, I told him I was embarrassed. When we arrived at the store, I got out of the car and hurried to the entrance.\n</p><p>When my son caught up with me, I asked him to stay a few feet back in case I ran into someone I knew at the store. He knew what I was doing. I then asked him how it felt to be treated like an embarrassment, and he said, \u201cNot good.\u201d\n</p><p>The next morning, we went to the transit office to pick up a bus pass for him (I told him I no longer wanted to be seen in a car with him and that he would have to take the bus from now on). I expressed aloud how much I regretted having to go into the office with him and that I was more concerned about how the clerk, whom I did not know, would perceive me than how I made him feel. I then asked him to stand by the door and not speak. I think he\u2019s getting the point, but I\u2019m still not sure.\n</p><p>I told my sister about this, and she got furious. She thinks I should understand that this is a phase and he will outgrow it. But I feel like I\u2019ve given him almost 2 years, and this phase is a well-ingrained habit that I\u2019m tired of. What do you guys think?\n</p><p>Source: nowiveseeneverything.club\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>My 14-year-old son started being ashamed of my husband and me about 2 years ago. We thought this would pass, but it has gotten worse. We\u2019re just regular people, but you\u2019d think we\u2019re weirdos the way he treats us. He tells us things like, \u201cDon\u2019t come to my games,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t leave me right out front\u201d &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":73382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[698,1177,658,390],"class_list":["post-73379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships","tag-family","tag-life-story","tag-relationship","tag-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73383,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73379\/revisions\/73383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></figcaption></figure></p>