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Adult SD a control freak and manipulator

stepton's picture

My DHs adult BD will stop at nothing to split up our marriage. She uses her children as a tool to get her own way. She invites my DH over for a card night and gets him so drunk he is unable to return home until the next morning. She flatters him, she calls him "Dad your My Hero!"; "Dad I need Help Pleassssss?"; "Dad can you look after my kids for me", "Dad would stay overnight, I'm afraid to be alone, I neeeeeeed protection from my violent ex partner"; "Would you spend Grand Dad's week with your grandson?"; "Would you Come to Grandparents night with your grand daughter", "Oh Dad, would you spend the day with me to celebrate my birthday?", or would you come over for Dinner tonight to celebrate your birthday?", "Oh it's Father's Day today, "Happy Father's Day Dad, I have a present for you" would come over for a few drinks and I'll give you your present"; and it goes on and on and on. For every birthday of her children, for every Public Celebration, including Xmas, Easter, Mother's Day, New Years. Not to forget the number of times she keeps ringing the house for him on a daily basis. She never rings herself, she has her daughter ring or her friend to ring or her ex to ring. She will never ring herself in case I answer and when she knows her father is home, then she talks all night to him till it exhausts him so he has nothing left to talk over with me. I have tried for so long not to upset my DHs relationship with myself I have said nothing but it had been hurting for so long.

She never invites me to attend any of the above. My DH drops everything for her. I have only realised this has been happening and now it's too late to change things. I mean, that instead of finding this venting outlet sooner, I took matters into my own hands and vented out at him for his deception and neglect of us and I stopped sleeping with him. We are constantly arguing about the above and now I think he hates me.

Is this familiar to anyone else, do you have any solutions.

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stepton's picture

Thanks whimsey, I think you hit the nail on the head. I need to see a counsellor. I hate that my life is constantly manipulated so that I don't have much time to spend with my husband. Your right about drinking. He never spends any time drinking with me and yet he takes all of our bottles of wine and drinks them with his BD. How's that? Every year, we are given bottles of wine from our customers and they build up over a period of time and I wait for a special time so that we could drink the wine together, but my DH says that it's not the right time or he's not in the mood, then his BD rings him and drops everything and takes a couple of bottles and leaves to see her. What gives? I can't stand it and I know she's enjoying watching me squirm. I will keep you posted.

Kes's picture

Agree - your DH needs to realise that his daughter is having a seriously bad effect on his marriage, and attend to it, pronto!
What is his problem - why does she have such a hold over him, why can't he just ignore her? He should not be dropping everything and constantly running to do her bidding.

stepton's picture

She is using her Dad as a partner to care for her children. Her boyfriend the father of her children is using P and she uses also I am suspecting. She does smoke marujana and claims she has stopped (Not!) and now her boyfriend is in prison. She now has a co-dependency to her Dad my DH and he can't see it that she is manipulating our marriage. She constantly flatters him and compliments him that he is her "Hero!", and he is so wonderful that he pays for everything and he does her gardening for her, cuts her lawn because she is so defensless since her boyfriend is locked up etc etc etc. I don't mind that he helps and supports her but he doesn't have to neglect us in the process. arghh!

What is it with these men. I don't know. What can we do about them? How is it that there daughters can hypnotise them to lose touch with reality and responsibility and committment to their wives or in my case his wife and stepdaughter and his own work. I just don't know?

I am off to make an appointment this morning to arrange counselling, I have had it!