Dating someone with a difficult teenager.

Hey all,

I recently ended a 5 month relationship in large part because of her teenage son. What kills me is that we got along really well and had fun, we had some great times together.

It started off fine for the first week or two meaning he was well behaved; then after a few weeks that changed. I knew he was difficult going in, but I didn’t know the extent. Pretty much whenever I was over there, he was telling his mom to shut the fuck up, calling her names and generally being insulting. He’s also hit her several times. (when I wasn’t there) he was also starting to be completely disrespectful towards me

I’ve literally never witnessed such disrespect in my life. At first, I would step in and say something but then I just said I can’t do this anymore.

The proverbial straw that broke the camels back was when she took something away from him, he lost his mind and they were literally wrestling to get it back. He gets it back proceeds to go into another room and nearly closes the door on her foot and hand.

She is allegedly going to get him help, but it was just becoming too much for me to sit by helpless and watch this the entire weekend. I’d say easily 50 to 60% of the entire weekend was her trying to diffuse his anger and insults.

I do feel like I jumped the gun a little bit and bailed, and I regret that I did. For anyone that has been through this did, did the pro child ever get better? I’m just second-guessing my decision right now.