A furious woman took to Reddit to vent after a very awkward, and frankly explosive showdown with her ex-husband over something as basic as... a bathroom. She didn’t let a desperate 4-year-old boy use a toilet in her house when he needed to pee.
Now the internet is divided: was she being heartless, or just setting a boundary in her own home? The ex didn’t take it lightly. He turned a toddler’s pee emergency into full-blown drama with a fiery finale.
The OP shared, “I open the door, and he is holding the hand of a four-year-old. He asks to come in and says his fiancé’s son needs to use the bathroom. I told him I don’t want him to come inside, because I don’t feel comfortable with him in my house.
The woman wrote, “At this point, my eleven-year-old started pestering his dad to stop so they could leave. My ex said, ‘Your brother needs to use the bathroom.’ My son said, ‘I’ll take him.’ My ex said ‘No, your mother would rather he pees his pants. We’ll go, and hopefully we’ll get to the McDonald’s in time.’
Later, the OP shared a bizarre continuation of the story. She wrote, “I did talk to my lawyer about what happened. He said we can address it at the hearing we already have scheduled about the movie situation. I thought that was that, but of course it was my turn to pick up the kids today.
When I arrived at my ex’s place, he opened the door very wide and invited me in. I was suspicious and said no thank you. He kept insisting I come in so we can show the kids we are civil, but I had a bad feeling.
I said I would just wait in the car for the boys to come out. I got in my car and texted my older son that I was there. A short while later he texted me back saying his dad said they couldn’t leave unless I got them.
One user wrote, “You’re not in a wrong here. He wanted to snoop. This was obvious after he rejected your son’s offer to take the kid to the bathroom. Sneaky isn’t he.”
Another person said, “Ok, so I like to ask my husband these scenarios and get his 2 cents. He seems to think, because you have stated you’ve had multiple problems with the ex, that this was more about control. He wanted you to do what he said. Was the boy hurting and crying because he had to go? If not, my spouse thinks it was a power play by your ex. If it were me, I would have asked my son to take him and told the ex to go wait in his car, but if this man just like to stalk you around, then you’re not wrong.”
One more user commented, “It’s good you didn’t take the kid to the bathroom. He could have coached the kid into saying you did inappropriate things afterwards and made you lose custody.He didn’t want your son to take the kid to the bathroom because he knew the kid didn’t have to pee and didn’t want to look like a liar.”
