I am a stickler when it comes to wearing a seatbelt in the car. There ARE no exceptions. So I was driving the other day and DH did not have his on (briefly) while we had our two BDs in the car and I was hassling him. He gets out of the car to go into a convenience store and BD9 tells me she knows someone else who doesn't wear a seatbelt: SD20. Oh great. That means DH is letting her ride around in the car with them without her seatbelt on, setting yet another great example for our two BDs.

In this tug-of-war we call stepparenting, have you dealt with a kid who is oppositional to the point of hurting themselves? SD now 20 was just that way, and looking back on it I just have to shake my head because she hasn't changed or grown up.

SD20 said publicly on the Internet: My family has screwed me over my entire life.

I told DH about it this weekend. He asked to see her account (at last). I showed him exactly where she had said it, he wanted to know when. We had a talk.

I guess he ended up giving her money for her birthday even though she'd lied and gotten more than $100 out of him just the week before. He "said" he'd make the ill-gotten money her birthday present, but he caved.

He's posting all kinds of stuff on the Internet about how "this is the life that chose him." He has six kids with, I just found out, FOUR women. He has four separate CS orders and he's bragging about how he's current on all of them. OK, the man works sweeping floors at a factory. How much money can he make? How large can these CS orders be? Bravo, you're current on CS. STOP HAVING ALL THESE KIDS! I sure hope he doesn't get SD pregnant. I SO don't need that drama in my life.