Entitled stepdad insists his wife's bio kids refrain from eating certain foods while at their father's house, bio dad refuses to comply so bio mom takes a step back from parenting

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
May 26, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. When I was growing up, allergies or dietary restrictions were seen as weird foreign, and basically uncool. It was always the nerdy, weird girl with organic carrots and Laura Scutters peanut butter that you had to mix before use with the dietary restrictions. She ate dates instead of the birthday cake because of her corn allergy, and her bread was always whole wheat with copious amounts of seeds instead of that milk soft white bread everyone wad eating. 

When a kid brought out a Lunchables, she brought out her dad's pot roast on a bed of brown rice, sounds appetizing eh? Oh, and of course she had asthma, why else do you think she couldn't eat all these foods?


The alienation that came from food judgement is now obsolete. These days, if you're the kid eating Lunchables and a ham sandwich on white bread then you're suddenly the freak. Funny how the tables turn. Nowadays, every kid is growing up seemingly allergic or sensitive to this, that, and the other. From garlic, to cheese, somehow kids parents have decided their bodies can't digest these things. Pity.

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    AITA for refusing to comply by my ex-wife's husband's rules about what my kids can eat so they can go to their mom's house?

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    My ex-wife and I (both in our 30s) divorced 7 years ago. We two boys together aged 8 and 9. My ex-wife remarried two years ago and her husband brought his daughter and
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  • This man can't actually think he can remotely dictate what his wife's bio children eat when they're with their father, right? The audacious entitlement is off the charts. Just because your children can't eat those things, it doesn't mean someone else's children can't eat them. 

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    son into the marriage. About five months after they got married my ex's husband sent me a list of foods I could not feed my kids because his daughter is allergic and whenever my boys are at their
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    house his daughter struggles with her allergies. He said he heard it from my kids' mouths that they eat those things when they're with me. He said anyone coming into their home needs to avoid those foods.
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    And that I must cut them from my kids diet when they're at my house, which was every other week at this time.
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    These include, . Peanut Butter . Eggs • Cheese . Strawberries • Chocolate
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    At first I thought it was a joke but I got an email from this man the next time my kids went to their mom's house, berating me for not complying with his orders. Then my ex-wife tried to sue me for custody
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    or for it to be placed in the court ordered custody agreement that our boys could not eat those things. She lost the case on both
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    counts. The judge told them they could not decide on what I feed my kids.
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    So for the past year my ex has not taken her parenting time with our kids. Her husband is not okay with them being there if they've eaten those things at my house. He said
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    his daughter could di and even if it's not that bad, she should not be made uncomfortable because 'a grown man child with a petty
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    grudge would not comply with keeping a child safe out of spite for the new father in his kids' lives'.
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    My ex blames me for her not being a mom to our kids. She told me all I needed to do was follow the list. That everyone has to. And that she's already had some family members refuse.
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    Our boys miss their mom but not their mom's house. I have tried to plan for them to see each other but she won't lead or drive here. She doesn't want to see them if they're
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    not in her house for her custody time. They're not welcome while they eat those foods. And I'm not depriving them of that stuff because this man orders me to.
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    I have my boys in custody because of this madness. My ex didn't handle that too well and she told
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    me I'm being a and alienating the kids from her. She told me to follow the rules and let the boys have both of us.
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    I just want to see what others outside of the equation will think. I have support from others. But these are people who know me. AITA?
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    Gmfbsteelers • 18h ago Does everyone in the girls class have to abide by this list? It seems very strange that she would only have a reaction to people in her home.
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    cas... 18h ago • Edited 17h ago Is the daughter licking your sons? Does the dad think they sweat allergens? I don't see how there can be any cross contamination unless your
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    kids go over with cheeks full of contraband like chipmunks. How do they handle her going to school?
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    Please report to the courts that the mom isn't taking her time so you can get full custody and child support. NTA.
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    Making sure they don't take allergens over is one thing, trying to control what your sons can eat when they are not there is insane.
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