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Friday Freedom & Sunday Dread

PushedToMyLimit's picture

Like so many step parents who have their SK's FT I celebrate the 2 Friday's a month SS10 exits our home and think about the wonderful weekend ahead...but man it is always met with already thinking about the Sunday dread of his return. Hope if you are free of SK's this weekend you find some time to enjoy it, be thankful for even the small window of freedom and celebrate this page, which continues to help many of us stay sane & out of jail Smile

I wonder

SMto3's picture

How it became normal to expect a person to take on someone's kids like their own and  not much else? For example, why don't people say, "oohh, he has a mom, you have love her like your own now" or "ooh he has siblings, you have to love them like your own"? 

And while we're at it, why doesn't anyone ever tell skids "ooh, dad has a new partner, you have to love her like your mom!"?

Torn between wife and daughter

JL8821's picture

My 17 year old daughter hates her stepmom. She blames her for breaking up her family. She does not live with us. She is very athletic and participates in sports at her high school. She wants me to attend ber events alone. She says it causes her great anxiety and hurt feelings if my wife attends her stuff. My wife was ok with this for the past year. Now she is saying enough is enough and I'm disrespecting her and our marriage by having her stay away from my daughters school events.

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BM took me off Em Contact and pickup

Secondroundstepparent's picture

 

 

She told DH I am not family and cannot be Emergency contact for SS's school. She replaced me with her mother who lives 5 hours away. 

She also said I cannot pick up or drop off SS to school. Which I don't anyway. But there have been rare cases where I did. It's not common. Either way. 

 

DH and I are married. 

Idk what she said to the school to "finalize" that she has the say but now we have to go there tomorrow to show our marriage cert and my freaken ID which has SSs last name. (BM has her maiden last name). 

Of course !BM drama before our trip

JustanotherSM17's picture

I was waiting for it to happen, drama with SD , BM and MIL! I just had a feeling when DH said he was talking to MIL on the phone it had to do with SD. mIL loooooove To butt in his relationship with SD and tell him how he needs to be doing more when she has no idea what is doing on!!! So MIL basically guilted DH about " not being there more for SD" and how she is doing bad in school because he doesn't communicate with BM anymore and some how that has to do with SD14 doing bad in school and it's also because he doesn't see SD anymore!

BM Rewriting History....again

strugglingSM's picture

So, wonder of wonders, SS got into college. He really shouldn't have, because he took remedial English freshman and sophomore years and you are not supposed to be able to enroll in a 4 year state school in our state if you did not take "college prep" English for four years, but maybe his school lied. He's taking "public speaking" as his English requirement this year. He is taking one academic class this year - business math (basically the second half of Algebra 2) - which he got a C- (likely a generously rounded up C-) last semester and currently has a D in.

SD16, Our Paid Hired Help!

Toaster's picture

Life is good, at least for now. But that's just until the inevitable next wave of drama hits.

 A decade ago, I wasn't aware that my partner and I had vastly different ideas about how to raise children. Although I don't have kids, I strongly believe in the importance of assigning them chores if I do.

Why?

Because chores are more than just tasks, they're a vital learning tool for time management. Children learn to navigate their day, balancing several functions within a limited time frame.

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33 year old SD mooching off everyone

MG_PBF's picture

Hi. I'm new, this is my first post. I'm married with 4 SK's and one biological son with DH. Our son is 9, SK's are 29, 31 and a set of 33 year old twins. All female. The youngest 2 are married with kids and are doing fairly well. The twins are not. They dropped out of school at 16 and it's been downhill ever since. DH and I have been married for 17 years. When we met, he had custody of the 2 youngest, his ex had the twins. I really don't know where to begin. The twins lived with us briefly but left because they did not like my DH's rules. This was when they were around 18-19.

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