I am only 25 years old. Since I was 21 I have been helping my common law husband raise his (now 8 years old) son. I usually try to stay out of the CONSTANT battles between him and the biological mother (which she always wins because he does not want to fight with her, and she does not know how to interact any other way), but these things are affecting my life more and more every year. I have no problem with sacrifice. Anyone on here knows what I am talking about. My husband does not drive for reasons I will not get into today, and so that responsibility solely falls on me. When we first moved in together (I was 22, SS was 4) we had his son every weekend. His BM started asking if we could take him on Thursday nights, as she had to work late. After a couple months of her dropping him off at dinner time on Thurs, and then hauling him out of bed at 3 am (because her shift at the strip bar, where she still works today, ended at 2:30)to brin him to her house, we said enough is enough and started taking him Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun every week. This meant that every Friday I would bring him to and from school before and after University, and now before and after work (his school is on the other side of the city, so this is not as easy as it sounds). In the last year she started putting up a stink about how she should not be responsible for driving both ways.