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can't understand BM and her family

Sia's picture

I know they are mentally ill, but I still can't wrap my head around the fact that their hate for DH & I is so much greater than their love for SD18. I posted last wk about NONE of them even coming to her graduation, or even acknowledging it. I had her party Saturday, and not ONE of them even acknowledged that either. I would've expected at least she get a phone call or card, or something, but NOTHING from them....

Where is the "line" that keeps you a STEP parent and not a PARENT?

SteppingUp's picture

I was thinking this morning about how every step parent has an imaginary line that they cannot cross because they are, indeed, a STEP parent and not THE parent.

Where is your line? And who keeps you at that line? Is it you making a boundary, your SO, the children (
"you're not my mom!"), etc?

going to scream!

rjs1069's picture

So, almost on a weekly basis, sometimes more The BM decides she is going to call my hubby with a complaint about me. Its never anything true, normal, accurate. It is soooo frustrating and annoying. My husband handles it well. Tries to ignore it as much as possible but it infuriates me in the worst way. They are things like- I took too many pictures of her son at an event. I stood too close to her at an event. I shouldn't be at an event. "Its only for my SS parents" she will even complain to my hub about my family being involved in my SS life. There are so many more examples.

I NEED SOME ADVISE

maria37's picture

I am a mother of two boys, a 16 year old, and an 8 year old who is a special needs child with an auditory disability. i have been with my boyfriend now for 2 years and he has full custody of his two daughters a 4 year old and a 6 year old. at firts my son was not accepted that well but my boyfriend is a great person and eventually realized that if he loved me he needed to accept my son. now i only have my boys half the time since i have shared custody. he has his girls full time and we barely have any time together as a couple.

Evil Evil Evil step daughter

TheRealMom's picture

I am so annoyed and frustrated with my youngest stepdaughter. I've posted a few times that when ever she is in one of her brat/bitch modes she finds any way to ruin everyone's day. I was getting ready to leave for work this morning, and I could already tell by her behavior that she was in one of her moods. As I was trying to leave, I asked if she could step aside so I could use the mirror, because I had to go to work.

Bio-Daughters Step Mom Wants To "Be Friends"---Feedback???

CrystalRE's picture

DH and I were at my bio-daughters softball game last night. As we were getting ready to leave her SM came up to me and asked if we could talk. I agreed and we went for a short walk. She told me that she thinks its best if we try to be friends so that we can share information about my daughter. The kicker is that she asked me not to tell my daughter that we are friends.

Monday is the day SD goes to her mom's

stepsoftly's picture

So it's always a day of adjustment. FDH & I both work at home so once SD8 is off to school we buckle down and work like crazy to get a head start on the week. But this is the every-other-Monday that she will go to her mom's after school instead of coming back here. So there's this feeling of something missing, but the possibility of more flexible plans at the same time. We like our weeks without SD, but we do miss her -- FDH more so than me, which I imagine is pretty normal and expected.

Adult Skids ... input wanted

stepoff's picture

I think we need a new word to reference adult skids. When I talk to DH about his adult kids, I feel weird calling them his 'kids' because they're NOT kids anymore. Other than calling them his son and daughter, I don't even know how to refer to them. When I blog or reply to a blog, I feel weird because people might think that I'm referring to actual kids, not grown offspring. I don't want to get the wrong message across, which I think has happened in the past.

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