SD5 - Can we go to the beach
Me - We are going to go wherever daddy wants to go today
SD5 - Why?
Me - Because its fathers day
SD5 - (annoyed pouty face) Can we go to the park?
ME - Dadddy wants to go to Best Buy and pick out a couple of movies
SD5 - Can I have a movie?
ME - No
SD5 - Why?
ME - Because its FATHERS day
SD5 - (annoyed pouty face) Well can we go to the park?
Me - No
SD5 - Why?
ME - Because daddy doesnt want to go to the park and were spending today with daddy.
SD5 - Why?

I want to give a little background before I go into what happened on Fathers day.

FDH's birthday falls two days shy of Father's Day this year, which resulted in a protracted three days of ass-kissing. I spent his actual birthday cleaning his house (which I *never* do) so that he could throw his birthday party without much fuss on Saturday. Turned out there was a bit of fuss because FSD3 chose Saturday to turn into Attila the Hun.

So, our weekend was anything but drama-free. At work, Friday, DH's boss made a comment about DH's daughter to the guy in charge of the site...the guy DH's company works for. Because the job took so long & had so many problems, he told DH's boss, "You owe me & I need payment in the form of a piece of ass. You owe me a night with your daughter". DH's boss (not knowing DH was standing behind him) says, "I've got 2 sons but I don't have a daughter...but DH does. You can have her. It's his fault all this took so long anyway. For that, I'll give you 2 nights with her".

I want to start out by saying me and my Fiance have been toghther 3 years We have an 8 month old Little Girl Toghther and I have a 4 Year old boy From a previous Relationship.. I hate my own home every other weekend when he gets his 2 girls ( whom I can't stand and will explain why..) We also get his Son every other weekend he doesn't bother me in the least I like having him around he is 16 years old very nice respectful properly raised.. I feel..

I had been on the verge of ending my relationship with SO, but decided to keep trying, because I really do love the clueless sap. Instead I disengaged again from SD, whom we only have on weekends, but it's still an enormous strain. I went to my mother's, intending to spend the whole weekend, but being the emotional wreck that I've been all week, I got my feelings hurt about something and decided not to stay (I'm not usually like this, by the way).

What would you have done…?
SS is going in the military in about 4 weeks. He is going to stay with his mom for 2-3 weeks then come back home for a week before he leaves. He is going to store EVERYTHING at his moms. So we help him pack up and clean out his room. He found a large picture frame with pictures of him and his mom from years ago. We moved everything, and I noticed that he never would take that out to the u-haul. He took EVERYTHING ELSE though.

I just spent just over 24 hours with SD15 - I met her on the way home to NC, stayed a night at my mom's and dropped her off at camp. We had a lot of fun talking and shopping and giggling - this is not about her. This is about BM.

I wish I could go back to the days when my adult stepkids didn't call on Father's Day. Thinking back, I was blessed with incommunicado skids. Now they give DH the gift of 15 hours worth of old home movies transfered onto DVD for Father's Day. Whatever happened to giving a tie?

DH didn't even tell me his kids had called or sent him anything until I griped that they hadn't done anything for Father's Day. Apparently, they called his cell and sent his present to his office. DH didn't say anything until I asked, then he couldn't stop gushing about how great this was.

I am a 31 year old SM with no biological children my partner is 53, we have been together for 5 years and it has been 6.5 years since his wife passed away of cancer. In the early days of our relationship there were no issues with the new family dynamics but over the last 8 months or so things have drastically changed. My partner also has a 21 year old daughter. I found around the anniversary of the BM death my SS has changed the way he treats me.