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Some Advice on Discipline and Disengaging with a Stepkid

jlot's picture

I am so annoyed with how I am getting bent out of shape by the rude behavior of my SD12 – she is a freaking kid – yet when she is around, I am on edge. I know I am the adult and I am usually a pretty happy person. However, I hate that when she is around and in one of her rude moods, she makes me feel bad about myself and the “job” (because let’s face it – this is a nonpaying job) I am doing as a stepmom – I feel like screaming: What am I doing to YOU to make you be such a snarky brat to me?

DH gets it?????

lisa510's picture

Okay, so I got a job to get me out of this house! I'm tired, but I think it was a good decision.

Now I'm not home to clean the laundry room, let the dogs out, keep the kitchen clean, and bitch about all the other crap that bothers me about sharing a house with piggish ungrateful skids.

Yesterday, DH came home an nearly had a coronary. First he argues with SS22 about SS putting money aside to prepare him to move out after college next May.

My light at the end of the tunnel!!!

Burbs_girl's picture

I was so excited to find this site!! My husband gets tired of my complaining about his ex and so does my mom and everyone else!!

I have an unusual situation. I have a daughter, her father and I were never married, and he is married to a girl I went to high school with. Things were rough at first, but 10 years later, we are like a happy family (to an extent). we all get along, both parents and step-parents!!

My husband and I have been together for almost 5 years.

BM Has So Much Nerve

karenemoy's picture

Have to vent but crazy, selfish BM called up yesterday demanding that we take SS to Florida for Thanksgiving - as she put it - "it is our turn" - the kid is 20!. We are going for a couple of days to see MY mother. She is so deparate to get rid of the kid fir Thankssgiving, she said she would pay his airfare - NOW all the sudden she has money. She just does not want her SON with her boyfriends family at Thanksgiving.

So she expects us to take him with us to stay in my mother's 2 bedroom apartment in a place for seniors! My mother barely knows him.

that was a rude thing to say

dakotamom's picture

student loan time and BM says WE need to fill it out because we make less than her and her DH. Kind of a bitchy thing to tell your kid to pass on to his father dontcha think?!?!

So i looked up this form today and under section 3 parent information:
Who is considered a parent? IN CASE OF DIVORCE OR SEPARATION, GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARENT YOU LIVED WITH MOST IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS. IF YOU DID NOT LIVE WITH ONE PARENT MORE THAN THE OTHER, GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARENT WHO PROVIDED YOU THE MOST FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING THE LAST 12 MONTHS.

any suggestions?????

Gana's picture

We have joint custody with my FH ex and the kids live with us. How can we get her to pay for things?
We pay her alimony and she now works and she does not pay us child support. How do we get her to help out with things? We don't want to go back to Court, we can't afford it. Any suggestions on what to say to her or what we should write in the letter?

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