My skids, 13 & 15, will NOT do chores of any kind and it is driving me up the wall! It's not like I want them to do everything, but I do think they should, at the very least, clean up after themselves and keep their rooms cleaned up. But no. You open the door to their room and it looks like a tornado just went through! They do not do their own dishes, they leave wet towels after their shower all over the floor, they do NOTHING! I am so sick of running around trying to clean up after 3 kids!

I'll preface this by saying my husband is uncommonly generous. He always overtips the waitress, he's handed a little kid in line in the store money to buy something when the parent(s) ran short.

It was actually one of the things I admired about him when we were dating. And that, of course, was before I saw the true dynamics of his relationship with SD17, and his seeming "fascination" with her. Don't remember whose blog the fascination came from-but very good description.

BF went to court with BM on Monday over the child support lawsuit that she so intelligently presented him with when I was pregnant with our child. His lawyer presented worksheets to the board of child support that was hearing their case showing how with both parties' incomes set to minimum wage and accounting for our child together, BF's CS will be going down. The committee agreed. BM went off about how she didn't believe it was fair for BF's income to be calculated at minimum wage when she knew he made much more money than that.

I thought of this while reading the forum topic about losing touch with the skids if DH were to die. So as not to hijack the thread...

I don't think I'll have much, if any, contact with SD stb 13 if her father were to die. I've been pretty open about my lack of emotional investment with SD due to lack of visitation. I do think BM will try to see me in court though.