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Oh my god! It's a Christmas miracle. He said I was RIGHT!!!

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DH, bless him, came to me tonight with "SS16 isn't doing as well in school as he thought. I spoke to his mother, and we're dropping the hammer. No phone except to say goodnight to his girlfriend. No going out during the week."
And then he said:
"It's my fault. You've been after me for months to follow up. You were right."

Please, for one second, pretend those three sweet words were said to you! You. Were. Right. (Enjoy that feeling fellow stalkers! Heaven knows they're rare amongst us.)

An update on earlier question and a score for team step if you need a happy story

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On a recent blog http://www.steptalk.org/node/213121 I wrote about my dilemma on whether to let my husband know that he and SS16 were indeed free to vacation with me and BS15 despite his and SS16's ability to screw up plans for the rest of us with their thoughtlessness.

Fascinating

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The level of insecurity at being "left out" fascinates me. This isn't a vent or complaint. Just sincerely scratching my head at how this personality is created. I'm sure there are more of him out there.

Hmmmm... What do you think?

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As I am disengaged, I am not sure how to approach this one. Next week is our March break where we live. A few weeks ago I was notified that SS 16 -BM really- had booked his driver training course during March break. That was all that was shared with me. I was annoyed, that once again I hadn't been contacted about plans, but I decided that I would take BS 15 away during March break by myself anyway. My husband decided that he would stay behind with his son. (It was his choice, he felt it wouldn't be right to leave SS16 behind)

Disengaging strategy tip that worked this weekend

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Saturday morning at breakfast we hit a road bump. At first, I was furious so I employed the following strategy and it helped. Maybe it will help you too.

After weeks of mentioning an event for BS15 (a sports related gala) the morning of the event DH says "who's going?" I reply "you, me and BS15." Silence. Yep, you know what's coming.

"Not SS16?"

Thinking of disengaging but afraid to take that step? Give it a try, you might like it :)

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If any of you need a little encouragement:
For the sake of my marriage (and equally my sanity) I FINALLY accepted it's more important to me to be happy than be right.
So a few days ago I told my husband I'll be "checking out" of this sick relationship with his son and the Disney dad syndrome (though I said it politely, of course) and even though he asked me not to turn in my key to the bridal suite at Hotel Stepparent Horror, I stood firm.

And in a follow up to my earlier post about SS16 having sex with his girlfriend...

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I just want to disengage. My DH gets so frustrated with me when I try to get him to act. Just like SS's poor school performance, and his lacklustre efforts at home with chores, this is now one more item that seems to be repeated incessantly in our home. I hate it. I hate fighting about it, and I'm pretty sure my DH wants me to shut up about it all - not necessarily because I'm wrong but because he just doesn't want to do the work. And whenever I open my mouth about it, I think I remind him he's not doing a good job.

SS16 having sex with his 14 yr old girlfriend.

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I say, since we know about it, we must tell her parents. They are leaving them home alone together.

My husband is struggling with the thought of how to do anything about it. Pretty sure he wishes we can pretend nothing's happening.

I said, do you want me to tell the mom so you don't look like the bad guy? His request - let me talk to SS about it tomorrow on the way to school. (Yes, I rolled my eyes but I stayed silent on that one.)

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