Never thought a five year old would be able to make me cry

I’ve been feeling really insecure lately about my position in my boyfriends five year old son’s life. Just last night I was talking to my bf about my insecurities because we’re not married and society has this preconceived notion of my status that I have to kind of actively shirk off.

So this afternoon, his son has his kindergarten graduation and I got work off to go and I’m the most excited about it between my boyfriend and I, who, granted, has been doing a lot of silly kid stuff for almost six years now whereas I have not. Then this morning without prompting, while the kid was even in a good mood, he told me I can’t come to his kindergarten program because I’m not a part of the family.

So now I’m in the bathroom crying and feeling ridiculous for even having my feelings hurt by a child in the first place and I just needed to talk about it.