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I haven't been on here in quite a while because, thankfully, I've been free from step parent drama for 6 months and counting. I leaned on this community a lot through my dark times, so thought I owed everyone an update. DH currently has no contact with anyone in his family other than his mother, and he's very low contact with her (dinner out for her birthday and Mother's day). SD sold her house and moved to another city over a 4 hour drive from us. She didn't bother to tell DH she was moving, and no one else in the family thought to tell him either.
Greetings fellow Steptalkers!
I just thought I would check in to say howdy to the new folks and give an update for the "regulars", 
This week so far has been really really nice. The weather has been perfect - hovering around mid 70's-low 80's with fresh breezes coming in even 30 miles away from the ocean. Havent had any beach days since last Sunday, but Im planning on at least 2 this week.
Now BM is adding to the disrespect issue. I have not been filled on everything but she text SO to tell him he has to take SS to this pool party. She then started on him saying he is a bad dad and that the kids can't stand him . She said the last time SD watched the pets we left no food for her to eat. We always , always specifically ask her what she wants and I got the things the night before we left since I had to go to store anyway. She doesn't even eat what we buy. The time before she ate one tiny bowl of salad, and I mean tiny. And she is paid for watching the pets.
I am not here much anymore. I still read and maybe comment on other things. Here I am again asking is it just me?
Background 15 yo old son is my DH bio and I adopted when he was 10 after we married. Technically not a stepmom anymore but I am certainly treated like one by my in-laws. We have another son 3yo I am also 26 weeks pregrnant with what will be our 4th child. We lost our little gilr when I was 37 weeks a hear and half ago. If you want more read past blogs.
If you have followed my story, you know that DH and BM lived within 100 miles of each other for 5 years. DH saw SS every Sunday and would attend doctor appointments and school functions throughout the week as able, driving the hour and a half each way to attend. BM had a nasty trick of telling DH about appointments and events day of, expecting him to drop everything to attend, and making him out to be a deadbeat if he couldn't. DH could rarely attend due to the short notice and BM reminds him of his "voluntary absenteeism" often.
We wrapped up our visit with SS12 yesterday. He said he had an amazing 3 weeks and felt much more connected than previous visits. He said he got to experience our normal routine like taking DD to gymnastics, us working normally, and going with DH to golf league, which he normally doesn't get to experience when he is only here for a week or two. He also said he got to see more people more frequently, than just seeing them once. DH and I wrapped up some photos from our visit and sent them back in SS' bag with a note saying how much fun we had and how much we love him.
As you can tell from my previous blogs... BM is very absent, history of drug abuse/neglect etc... Shes got outstanding warrants over 10k in arrears.... She has not seen the kids physically in over 6 months and now she is suddenly wanting to call every 2 and 3 weeks at a time...
State of Kentucky here... Lawyer said around december if shes still not seen them that we can go for Terminating parental rights...
I waited some time to not dox anyone with accurate data but my SD recently had a birthday.
My DH tried several times to call her on her birthday and every time it went to VM. She replied very sweet and graciously to texts, even though calling her right after a thank you text went right to VM.
My DH is obviously upset to be entirely shut out of SDs birthday. We didn't expect to be invited to the gala (and it was a GALA) but to not answer or return calls/texts was not expected because my SD is generally polite.
Hi everyone, in need of some advice as DH and I are really concerned.
Friday at last. It's been a chaotic couple of weeks. I'd like to sleep in one day this weekend, but too much to do.
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