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Hi, I haven't logged onto my account here forever. I used to lurk here all the time when my DH and I first started living together and the whole reality of being a step-parent really set in. We've now been living together almost 3 years and married 1.
I started a job in June with them fulling knowing that I was pregnant. I even declined a different job offer trying to do the right thing because I had already accepted theirs.
Well now I'm 2 weeks out until my due date and they call me into the office to tell me that starting on Sept 16th they are going to be taking some of my work off my plate (this is all stuff that I spent the last 3 months fixing because the last guy messed it all up) and would be downsizing my job and cutting my pay.
I'm losing $16,000/year!
Tomorrow will mark two weeks since I spoke to SD16. She really hasn't been home much, but she has been there and we haven't exchanged as much as a look. After all of the drama she has caused in the last couple months, I am just done. I know this isn't exactly "adult" of me, but I don't care anymore. I have taken the high road time and time again. Maybe it will teach her a lesson, a lesson she needs to learn. "You can't just treat people like crap all the time, and expect them to forgive and forget because you want something."
We have a few rules in the house about cell phones/curfew.
I'm wondering if anyone else out there is thinking about creating a will or a trust. I need some advice on what (if anything) DH and I should leave for skids.
DH and I have been married for 1 1/2 years. I have a SD20 and a SS25. DH and I also have a 2yo and 1 due in March. (4 kids total). I want DH and I to create a will, mainly for our 2 kids to make sure that they are taken care of should something happen to one or both of us. HOWEVER, I know he will want to include the skids in the will as well.
Hello All! I've been reading the posts on this site for a few days now and I wanted to share my story with you and ask for your opinions. It shadows the stories of some members like DC Girl and soon2bstep, so it's nothing new and the advice you've given them applies to me, as well. Yet there is a teeny tiny spark of hope in my mind that maybe my situation is different...maybe?
How another woman in an entirely different household can run my schedule. I know I've talked about this before... but here I go again. I have a high level job. I juggle my schedule as best I can. Appointments are usually done at night, and when I have some for the kids I 'work from my home' etc so I can accomodate them. The travelling that I'm sometimes required to do is done when it seems most convenient, and then you know I try to fit 'me' time in there somewhere, but not always successfully. My day usually starts at 5am and I don't sit down again until 9pm...anyways...
I'm sure my situation isn't unique, however, I still would appreciate any help or support anyone could provide. I could really use some advice. My fiance and I are getting married next year. He has two boys. The oldest is 20 and the youngest is 15. His ex wife is a real pill. She was verbally abusive throughout the marriage and on occasion, physically. I am stuck between a rock and a hard spot. Since before the divorce was over, she has been filling their heads with the craziest stuff. She has gone so far as to write horrible things to my fiance under their oldest son's email name.
FH and I went over to my brother's house tonight after we dropped SS9 off at football practice so FH could check out a hot tub my bro picked up. SD13 wasn't supposed to be home till 7:30 pm...although she got home early...about 6:30 and called me to tell me she was home...which is what we expect her to do if we aren't home and she gets home when nobody is there... Well while FH and I were at my bro's house his ex was constantly calling and asking where we were and whatnot.
My diva sd drives me and my kids nuts. This is an attractive young girl, she's 18 years old, tall, blonde and very pretty, but doesn't she know it. She's currently at college and works part time, sometimes doing promotional work. She needs her dads money for pretty much everything she does. She lives with her mum, supposedly most of the time, but seems to be spending more and more time at our place since the maintenance payments stopped on her 18th birthday.