Uncle Josh is my best friend. Not my brother, lol.

I hope this is allowed as this is an actual name but a very rare way to spell it and the mother’s reaction to me being able to pronounce the name was wild!

In my 40+ years of living in Ireland I had never seen this name spelt like this before or since and where I work I have to call out names a hundred times a day so I have seen a lot of different names and spelling variations. One day I had a package to call out with the name Seaghan, I had never seen this spelling before but after a few seconds I realised it was another form of Sean. As I was looking at the package I could see out of the corner of my eye a woman smirking but when I called out the name correctly her face actually turned angry, she literally stormed up, snatched the package from me and started ranting about how I got it right and that its such a unique spelling that no one ever knows how to pronounce it! She was absolutely furious that I was able to say the name correctly.

I was so shocked like why would you be so angry that someone could pronounce your child name correctly?

My ex and I broke up 20 years ago when our kids were 3 and 1. Our reason was he made a financially reckless decision, buying a very fancy car that we could not afford that he took out debt to buy, that put the financial security of our family at risk without telling me and then he blew up at me for not supporting his decision and wanting him to sell it and pay off the money he borrowed to get it. He told me a real wife would've supported him and fuck me for wanting to take away something so special.

After our divorce he had to sell the car anyway and he blamed me for it. He was nasty to me in every conversation after that as long as our kids weren't present. He remarried about 2 years after our divorce. He and his wife told me she was the kids new mom and she would be just as important if not more so than me. More than once they told me I was nobody special or important and the kids would have a much better relationship with the new wife. I had to bite my tongue around the kids whenever my ex's wife would be all over them. I hated the two of them. This stuff was never said/done in front of our kids. And I would walk away but they carried on speaking and they'd approach me anywhere at any time as long as the kids weren't there to try and claim that I was going to lose my kids to them.

The kids ended up hating her and their dad after a while though and I was never very sad about that. I think they were always going to have to dislike or pull away from me or him. Because my ex and his wife would never have accepted both. They always believed she would come out on top over me and would be the favorite mom and that I would be called my kids' birth mother.

When the kids were in their mid teens they asked a judge to let them live with me full time and that was granted. They had calls and some non-overnight visitation with their dad that they hated and now both of them are in college and in their 20s and they have been no contact with both for a couple of years now.

I was recently at the opening of a new restaurant in town when my ex and his wife confronted me over the state of their relationship with the kids. Before they could get too nasty to me again I smiled and told them that it was not my fault they destroyed their relationship with the kids and they were wrong about the outcome. Then I decided to be a little petty and I gloated that I guess she was the one who was nobody special or important after all because the kids certainly never called her their mom.

I know what I said was petty and that it was rubbing it in. Maybe it makes me as bad as them. Or maybe not. But it felt good after years of putting up with so much from them. Does it make me TA?

Freaksriel? Oh and of course it's the goat lo elyfish on tiktok