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cnaweston's picture

Wow after reading a about how to disengage i am excited to go home!!! its been a long time since ive said that. im sure my DW will have an issue cause im not gonna help her with the kids like i was but maybe eventually she will get the picture that i am done. after reading the story on disengaging it got me thinking, we just took the kids on vacation to see my DWs dad and we took the kids. well while on the trip my sd10 said she wasnt glad i came on the trip and my ss11 was a little ahole. and i eventually went off and told them without my car and paycheck we wouldnt have even gone on vacation. and they looked at thier mom and she had to tell them it was the truth. im tired of doing things only for the the kids to turn around be disrespectful. my sd10 is a great kid but she is still a kid so she does have her disrespectful moments. my ss11 is an awful kid and he will act a fool all day until he wants something then he's sweet and he'll stay that for a few minutes then he's back to being a jerk. and i am done. i just dont understand how people can let thier kids act the way my ss does. my mother would have torn my butt up if i did half the stuff he gets away with. but i am going to wash my hands of it and let him be. and when he grows up and gets thrown in jail dont think im gonna miss the opportunity to say I TOLD YOU SO!! if his parents wanna let him be rough with girls and talk ugly to people fine. but when comes home cause his girlfirends dad has done kicked his butt for being rough with his daughter once again im gonna tell my DW i told you so. i really do want my skids to have good lives and i want them to be happy but i do think that everybody, child or adult should get whats coming to them.

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wonderwhy's picture

@ butterfly in the search on the right hand type in disengaging...a few blogs will come up. I am working torwards my disengaging as well!! Feeelllls sooooooooooo goood!!! Smile

giveitago's picture

I did not read about disengaging anywhere, I just decided that I was sick and tired or their disrespect, theivery, behaviors, alcohol, drugs, sex, (substitute rock and roll for rap and current teenage music) and their feelings of entitlement. I stopped enabling them! I tried to point out to DH how things were wrong, waaaaaaaay wrong, but he would not listen to me and if he did the kids kicked up such a fuss that they got their own way from him and I was left out in the cold, so to speak. I did not stop speaking with them, or being nice to them in other ways...I just stopped them playing us off against each other by referring them to their dad at every juncture and they ALL realized how much I did contribute and DH pretty quickly saw what was going on too. Dad is so cool, huh? Dad pretty quickly started issuing 'tough love' as he called his 'saving face' stuff (hey, he did it!).
Any other tips on disengaging would be helpful for me too, thanks.

areyoukiddingme's picture

Congrats on putting your foot down. I am also new to the disengagement process, as within the last 3 weeks or so. What I have noticed, for me, I need to work on self control to not let things bother me with SD16. If she asks me a question... Ask your father. If she texts me.... Ask your father. I am still trying to find that thin line between disengaged and being just plain mean but so far it's going quite well. My stress has gone down so much that I almost feel like a new person.

On the other side of it, I do my best to reinforce respect between my bkids and DH. DH is just as much of a parent as a birth parent. Its just too bad that SD16 isn't reinforced in this way. Oh well, disengagement has begun.

Good Luck! Smile