{"id":24090,"date":"2026-09-17T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=24090"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:00:24","slug":"dads-new-girlfriend-said-i-smell-as-bad-as-you-mom-my-7-year-old-told-me-after-a-weekend-at-my-ex-husbands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=24090","title":{"rendered":"‘Dad’s New Girlfriend Said I Smell as Bad as You, Mom’ \u2013 My 7-Year-Old Told Me After a Weekend at My Ex-Husband’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cDad\u2019s girlfriend says I smell as bad as you, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

My seven-year-old son, Mason, told me that after coming home from his father\u2019s house. Then he revealed something worse: he and his older brother had to change clothes in the garage before entering. Sierra said their clothes smelled like my house.<\/p>\n

My ex-husband, Ryan, called it a laundry issue. Sierra said certain detergents gave her headaches. But when I spoke to my older son, Eli, I learned she also sprayed the couch after the boys sat on it and joked about getting \u201cthe other house\u201d off the furniture. Sometimes Ryan laughed along.<\/p>\n

At our next family dinner, I placed two labeled laundry baskets by the door to show them what the boys had been facing. Sierra called it childish. I agreed\u2014and asked her to imagine how it felt for a seven-year-old.<\/p>\n

Then Eli spoke up. He hated the garage rule and the jokes, and he told his father so. Ryan finally listened.<\/p>\n

The following weekend, the boys used the front door and changed upstairs. Sierra apologized to Mason for making him think he smelled bad. That was all I wanted: for my children to feel welcome in both of their homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDad\u2019s girlfriend says I smell as bad as you, Mom.\u201d My seven-year-old son, Mason, told me that after coming home from his father\u2019s house. Then he revealed something worse: he and his older brother had to change clothes in the garage before entering. Sierra said their clothes smelled like my house. My ex-husband, Ryan, called …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24092,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24090\/revisions\/24092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}