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My partner just told me that her 17 year old daughter will be coming for a week in September. Recently, the daughter, let's call her Lara, stated that it was too hard to live with us, too stressful, because her mother asked that we have one day free of her boyfriend. She's been living with her father for a month and it's been really pleasant for us. The kid has been only manipulative and shallow since I've known her for the past 7 years and has run our household. I'm dreading the return.

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Thanks. It is just a week, but I feel this dread that it's going to be the gateway back to her coming and living with us more than half the time again. It's been rough, and I'm not proud of the way I've fought with her mother just trying to get one or two rules or boundries in the house. The last month has been like heaven. Going back to the three nights a week and every other weekend of being held captive by a shallow, know-it-all hystrionic princess is just making me want to run as far and as fast as I can.