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Update from Yesterdays Drama

Learning to Stepparent's picture

So I told DH this morning how frustrated I am about everything and how I feel used and flat out asked him if the only reason he wanted to marry me was so that I would raise his kid so he didn't have to. I asked why it took me breaking my foot off in his ass to get him to do anything and why I care about his kid more than he does and why he continues to let BM shit all over us and dictate the schedule. He appears to have understood where I was coming from but I have yet to see if there will be any long lasting change.

Anyway, to get to the good part. He texted BM this morning and basically told her it was unfair of her to dump all of the parenting responsibilities on us and to expect a bill in the mail for her portion of the medical expenses (which we figured out last night is in the neighborhood of $450. BM will NOT be pleased). She called to bitch him out about how she was going to call the caseworker again and tell her all about how DH wasn't letting her have her weekly phone calls (they went to mediation last summer and she said she wanted weekly phone calls with SD which frankly I feel is not enough but whatever, at least it was something. She called the first few weeks but now she only calls to talk to SD if it is a holiday or something like that and apparently that is somehow our fault for not calling her or something?) and also to tell the caseworker, now this is where you can see just how stupid she is, that we don't tell her about medical appointments to give her the chance to go to them.

Ummmm.......Learning texted you 2 weeks ago to tell you about a dentist appointment 2 months in advance and you called the caseworker to complain and ask if you had to go and you are told no and you are refusing to go. Now you want to call the caseworker to complain that we don't tell you when appointments are so you can go? Please God let me be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

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Learning to Stepparent's picture

Me or BM?

Wait, don't answer that. I may not want to know lol.

Learning to Stepparent's picture

Hey, I fully admit I have my moments of crazy myself but I like to think at the end of the day I'm mostly sane. Delightfully eccentric, if you will, if not basically normal.

It's all about self awareness.

Learning to Stepparent's picture

Totally. It will never cease to amaze me that the caseworker will give her all the attention in the world for whatever stupid thing she comes up with but DH tries to call to tell the caseworker that BM called saying we had to get SD early from her visitation weekend because the electricity got turned off in the place where she was living and she didn't know where she was going to be living and wasn't sure if she would be able to take SD the next time and he can't even get a phone call returned.

notarelative's picture

She saying she called or will call the caseworker, but that doesn't mean she did or will.

As to the caseworker, have you started a paper trail? You may want to email her. In any case keep a log of when you called and what was said if you talked to her or what message you left on the answering machine or service.

In any case I'd keep a log of pickups, dropouts, and reasons BM gives for time changes.

Learning to Stepparent's picture

We are going to start a paper trail with the caseworker tonight and send her an email with our concerns.

In other news, BM now thinks she can get out of paying her court ordered share of SD's dental expenses because DH is the one who decided to take her to the dentist.

Yeah, your 5 year old had an abscessed tooth. It's not like we decided to take her in on a whim because we thought her mouth would look better with silver caps for teeth.