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I miss my private life

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Submitted by newlife on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 9:44pm

I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with since gaining a child to live with who is my husband's son every weekend is that my quiet, private life is shot to hell. No longer can anything that happens in our house, either minor or major, stay between our walls. As long as my husband's son is around, he will blabber it all to a woman (BM) I barely know and try really hard to tolerate. Not only that but then she tells her boyfriend, she tells her best friends, she tells everyone she knows. If my husband and I have a disagreement on a Saturday afternoon, she knows.

Disengaging experiences

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Submitted by newlife on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:18am

This past weekend I made my first attempts at being more "disengaged". Honestly at the time I didn't really know when I made the choice to step back from the step parenting role, I had begun to do this thing called "disengaging". I'm kinda new to this world and the lingo, can you tell?

First weekend with a new mindset...

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Submitted by newlife on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 9:23am

I have been searching for some good discussion and just plain venting about being a step parent for the last year. I knew it wouldn't be easy for me. First I lived a happy single life for 31 yrs in another state. My hubby and I met when we were both 28 at a large industry trade show. He lived in the mid-atlantic and I lived in the mid-west. We fell hard for each other very quickly. I knew he was "the one" very early on, I had dated many guys before him so I was pretty confident that, in spite of the very different life he lived, he was the right man for me.