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It just keeps getting harder and harder

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Y’all know I’ve been struggling. This weekend I was ready to throw in the towel. I still can’t get something off of my mind. This weekend was a skids weekend. Friday he gets the call...SD17 isn’t coming over at all. SD14 will come Saturday night instead of Friday. SD14 asks what will we do when I get there and she gets the typical response...whatever you would like to do. So long story short, when it’s a skid weekend they show up when it’s convenient to them. DH expects me to leave those weekends free just in case. Ok then. Well SD17 turns 18 in one month! Yes she graduates too!

So defensive regarding the ex

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If BM or anything to do with her...her family etc comes up, we seem to get into a huge argument. My DH is so defensive when it comes to this subject matter. We always end up arguing and I bring up how he’s being defensive. Today he ended up storming off and locking himself in the bedroom. Today I just asked a question and it went all over the place. He’s so over the top protective of his kids. I don’t know if he feels like it’s something against his kids but that makes no sense whatsoever. Does anyone have experience with this?

Typical weekend rant

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It’s skids weekend. The time DH’s whole attitude towards me changes. He got mad at me before they even showed up because I wasn’t showing signs of excitement about them getting there. I’m supposed to look like I miss them and be ranting about how I can’t wait for them to arrive. What a way to put me in the mood. Let’s start off saying what I’m already doing wrong. I had told DH about a new park I wanted to take the skids to. Yes I do at least try! He told them Friday night about it. Saturday we wake up and one SD wants to go do something else.

So hard when we raise our kids so differently

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My kids are a little older than DH’s. My youngest is 3 years older than his oldest. I raised my kids to be independent and not rely on mom and dad. When I say this I mean they were taught responsibilities and work ethics. When they were in high school they had jobs and paid for their gas in their cars. My daughter is 20 now and even if I offer to help her she says no mom that’s why I work. I need to manage my money in will save up for it. She was so independent that her senior year in high school she refused to let us buy her prom dress.

Weekends...getting to be too much

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So I know y'all have read my post about this past weekend and daddy's lap. I just need to vent because some of this is getting to be too much. I love my DH. He is awesome to me when the skids are not there. That is the when we are happiest. He never wants to step on SD toes for any reason. Our weekends with them are all about them. Doesn't matter what else may be going on in our lives. We have to cook what they want, when they want and entertain the whole time. They are attention mongers. They can't just chill.

Daddy's lap...3rd wheel continued

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I was glad to hear from all of you that I'm not crazy!!! Let me give you some background because I don't know how I will be able to stop this. We will be at a football game where the senior SD would get the end of halftime and all of 3rd quarter off. We will have empty seats all around us and she comes and sits in DH's lap...the entire time!!! Yes it freaks me out because it is gross!!! DH brags to friends about how his kids still love to sit in his lap. He thinks somehow it shows that he's a good dad because they still want to do it.

3rd wheel...never ends

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So skids are visiting. As soon as they arrive I become the odd man out. DH and I are sitting on the couch when they arrive. That ends as soon as they walk in DH jumps up and goes and sits on the love seat with SD17 and SD15 goes and sits on his lap with her back to me facing the two of them. They sit and talk all afternoon and all I see is a back. I'm sure I'll get chastised later for not jumping in with them. No matter what age it won't stop.

What does it even mean?

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So I got a call from DH today. One of his friends called him and told him that someone close to him, who he considers like a son and watched the kid (mid 20s) grow up slept with DH's ex wife. Apparently this happened about 3 years ago. DH is upset with him. Apparently ex wives should be off limits. Ok. I'm pissed that he even gives two craps who his ex sleeps with. I don't care who my ex sleeps with. I left him and it's none of my business. DH doesn't want to talk to the boy now and he's mad. How should I feel about this?

Ugh....sigh...more of the same

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We had some time without the skids this past week and life was good. DH and I got along so well. Skids come this weekend and he's just a totally different man when they are here. He turns into daddy watchdog, Disney dad, kids do no wrong dad, protect skids from stepmom dad. He insisted on taking the skids all 3 days to do something which resulted in an extra $200 spent on them this weekend. That's all fine and dandy but he better not ever complain about spending money to buy my kids dinner when they come and visit. Yes, I had the finance talk about a week ago.

This is why they provide a schedule

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DH and skids have gotten off on the visitation schedule because the skids have been "busy" and have been canceling on the weekends they are supposed to come. Well of course BM tells DH just take them whenever you want. It doesn't have to be your weekend. Because of this it's been months where we have had a skid free weekend! DH and I have been talking about taking a little weekend trip this month. This morning he tells me he needs to call BM first and run it by her to see what the skids have going on.

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