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This site has given me a piece of my sanity back

Chmmy's picture

I am grateful every day for the wisdom of my STalk friends, and I mean it when I say friends. I really did think I was crazy, mean, an awful wife and step mother.  Y'all understand me more than anyone. I've opened up to some friends and my mother but there are things I can't even tell my mother due to she loves my husband and I'm trying not to turn her against him. She won't be too surprised when I leave though. She knows I'm hoarding money in my own accounts and she understands why I'm doing it, or she thinks she does. She thinks I'm hiding it from the skids, if something were to happen to me I don't want the skids to get anything of mine. I want my bios to get it. The full truth is I want an escape plan. My mom will also think it is the skids fault I left but it is DH. My mom knows he is an overly leniant parent but she doesn't understand fully that he stabs me in the back each and every time he has undermined me as an authority figure.

I sent DH a message this morning asking him to follow through on the 8pm bedtime the rest of the week while I am gone(Im staying with my mom til Saturday!!!!). They were late for school because they were up til 1ish in the morning...and yes, school is downstairs on the computer, they didn't have to go to school. Also they woke me out of a sound sleep at 930pm looking for the Nintendo switch. They should have been in bed #1 and they are not allowed to knock on my door after we go to bed unless there is serious injury, illness, flood or fire. 

DH did not respond to my text about the boys but did call briefly to discuss paying a bill and mentioned sorry didn't have time to answer text, he was busy. Yet, he had time to send a message to SD21 and SD18 under the title MY LITTLE ANGELS(it's an ongoing group message between the 3 of them. He couldn't discuss the boys or acknowledge my message but he had time to send his morning message to the girls to have a great day, happy taco tuesday, along with several pictures and gifs of people and animals eating tacos. What a cool dad.

I'm still convinced that he does not love his kids fully like a parent should but in some sense uses them to fulfill his needs. He'd rather fulfill his needs than fulfill their need for structure, consistency, guidance, boundaries and decent parenting. It also fulfills his need to look like a good parent from the outside when he "does everything for those kids."  But he doesn't. His closest family knows this. I know that his siblings at times did not want his kids around since they ruined events with their crap behavior and now I'm wondering if they want SS13 around since he does and says weird things around their kids. I wouldn't put some sort of incest past him and I know he has done sneaky weird things at sleepovers including watching inappropriate things on other people's smart tv's and even has gone as far as taking a Kindle from a 5 year old cousin and using it for what ever he does online and then the 5 year old was getting inappropriate pop ups on his screen. Everyone is afraid to confront DH because he is so protective and defensive. He used to protect and defend BM also. She lied to friends and family, stole from them, and manipulated money from people DH knows and DH defended her to the death.

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tog redux's picture

Yes, he's using the kids to meet his needs, and that's why they are all so dysfunctional.  It's selfish parenting, but he'll go to his grave thinking he's Father Of The Year.

Chmmy's picture

It's so funny that so many dad's use the phrase, I'm a good dad to cover their inadequacies. When DH said that to me for the 100th time I started laughing and explained that all of the Disney dads who are a disservice to their children say that. He was very mad!!

tog redux's picture

Well, the bar is low for men. Show up and have a relationship with your kid, play with them here and there, and you are a "good dad".

advice.only2's picture

Sounds like you are getting things ready and will leave when you know the time is right. I wonder if your DH will be shocked and surprised when you leave or if he will act like he knew the whole time.

Chmmy's picture

He knows I have one foot out the door. He has tried to change many times and never follow through. He does a great job for a 24 hours or a couple days or sometimes a week. It's almost like he knows what to do but doesn't do it. That's with the little ones though, with the older girls, I always thought his relationship was weird and he chases them too much and "what's wrong? what do you need? can i get anyting? can i do anything?" all the chasing and begging was too much but now I see how much worse it is and sick so even if he changed with the boys, I'm so turned off by him I don't want to stick around. I'm also waiting for SS13 to become a sex offender. It's gonna happen and I'd rather be gone.

Picardy III's picture

My money would be on shocked and surprised, sadly. No matter how heinous their behavior, narcissistic types always act blindsided when their partner has had enough. "She left out of nowhere, for no reason! And I was so good to her!"

Chmmy's picture

Oh ya, I'll be the bad guy for sure. His mom and his sister know though. They love DH but they know. They both love me very much because I"m the best thing that ever happened to these kids as far as parents go

SteppedOut's picture

Ha! Isn't this the truth! My formerSO wad like this. He thought everything was perfect. It was...for him only.

Exjuliemccoy's picture

You sharing your story is helping people you'll never know.

Life is complicated and not everyone is able to just walk out the door, but you're teaching others to be wise, coolheaded, and plan their exit well. You're also demonstrating the learning curve of steplife; what it's like to come up against and identify an entirely foreign type of dysfunction, and how it kills all love and attraction for your spouse. And importantly, you recognize that these are not your people, and that the situation is never going to change. 

Thanks for the Master's course. You are a doll, and the next chapter of your life is going to be wonderful!