“If you knew my son, he’s really the predator, not me!”

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“Not long ago (read: last week), I couldn’t even go to the bathroom without my kids following. They still need me to fall asleep, go to school, interpret the world, cut it up into small, digestible bites, and spoon-feed it to them before seven-fifteen am each morning. We have a short hand, a long hand, and a second language that Jason still luckily doesn’t understand. But these baby remoras, these emotional vampires- the most emotionally high-maintenance men I’ve ever dated are growing up. And eventually, I will lose them,” she wrote.

Jenny later detailed her reaction to her eldest son texting with a girl. “[She] was twelve, but I could already tell my brand of toxic. She was bossing him around and using big words, and he was utterly spun. I complained to Jason that I wanted to intervene before he got hurt and that she wasn’t even hotter than me,” she wrote.

The photo and caption left some Instagram users “deeply appalled,” with one person writing, “Super weird. And I have boys the same age. And yes we hug and cuddle but that caption was creepy AF.”

Later doubling down on her divisive caption, Jenny said, “The joke that offended people was: ‘Your eldest son will be the most toxic boyfriend you ever have.’ And he is. Parenthood has demanded a level of commitment and self-sacrifice from me that, in any other context, would be considered pathological. I’d never accept this kind of relationship under any other circumstances. And yet here I am, jumping through fire, constantly striving for affection and approval, waiting by the phone for a guy who can’t even drive.”

“I’ve been making some version of this joke for over a decade. My sense of humor hasn’t changed, nor has the tone and style of my Instagram. This is who I have always been. Maybe it’s not for everyone. But it is me,” she continued. “When I look at that picture, I see a twelve-year-old boy who still wants his mother, and a woman trying to hold on to closeness and connection at a time in her life when everything else is changing.”