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I stole this from Blender.

Willow2010's picture

Blum 3 I stole the quote from Blender.

It’s not verbatim, but close.

How many of your DH’s are like this….

“My DH is a great man, husband, and step father. But he stinks as a bio parent.”

Why is this?! This sums up my DH in two sentences. And it seems like a lot of out DH’s are like this.

Do you think they would still be bad parents if they had stayed with BM?

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distorted reality's picture

Hell yes! My SO sucked as a parent while he was with BM. They BOTH suck(ed) :sick: STILL SUCK!

They are obviously part of the new parenting craze.... GIVE EVERYTHING- ASK NOTHING- EXPECT NOTHING- KISS A$$ whenever possible! AWESOME parenting skills! :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

distorted reality's picture

"DH told me his kids were bad because BM didn't allow him to parent. I think this is what DH told himself to some degree because I encourage, offer to help, and for awhile demanded him to parent his kids and he still doesn't."

^^^^This^^^^

"I do know that DH is NOT a strong parent - he hates conflict and doesn't deal well with being the bad guy. All flaws."

^^^^This^^^^

"He seems uncomfortable with his own kids at times - unhappy almost, overwhelmed maybe?"

^^^^This^^^^

Wink

Milomom's picture

Blender - we have very similar situations!

We have 50/50 custody of skids (FSD16.5 & FSS13) - we have wed/thurs/fri week 1 and then wed/thurs/sat/sun week 2.

I think that since skids spend 50% of their time with BM, that FDH just "defaults" to her & that situation with regard to skids' education and upbringing. KWIM? Not sure if that makes sense or not.

FDH seems to have the attitude that BM is a good mother and will take care of the day-to-day of raising skids. BAD IDEA!!! Especially since BM: is a high school dropout, was preggo at 17, never held a full-time job in her LIFE, was always dependent on my FDH during their marriage and just now (in her 40's) started attending a vocational school to obtain some kind of bubblegum machine nursing certificate - she is the FARTHEST person to be the one directing skids' education,etc...!! IMHO!

***Milomom shaking head***

FDH either doesn't realize or simply doesn't CARE that skids are on the train to LOSERVILLE (JUST.LIKE.THEIR.MOTHER) and FAST!!

FDH & I truly have an AMAZING, WONDERFUL relationship - this is the only topic (DH's partial "non-parenting" when it comes to skids' education and not making them do chores, etc...) that we disagree on.