My ex-husband’s fiancée, Nadine, and her 14-year-old son are moving into his two-bedroom home. When I found out, I made it clear that I was uncomfortable with a teenage boy sharing a bedroom with my 12-year-old daughter. Nadine didn’t say much—she just gave a smug little smile.
A few days later, when I arrived to pick up my daughter, I walked into her room and was heartbroken to find her crying. Her closet was empty. That’s when I learned that Nadine had moved all of her own belongings into my daughter’s room and told her she’d now be sleeping downstairs—on the living room couch.
I was furious. I called my ex to demand an explanation. He claimed that Nadine did it to keep her son and my daughter as far apart as possible—based on my own request. But when I asked why her son couldn’t be the one to sleep on the couch, he brushed it off.
He said I was the one who stirred everything up in the first place, so it didn’t make sense to inconvenience her son. Then he added that this wasn’t my house anymore, and I had no right to interfere.
But my daughter is still hurting, and I feel completely powerless. Am I really the one in the wrong?