Dear Valued Users,
It's with a heavy heart that we announce the permanent closure of StepTalk.org on August 31st, 2025.
This decision wasn't an easy one. For over twenty years, StepTalk has been a source of support for stepparents around the world! However, over the years, the costs associated with maintaining and upgrading the site to remain secure, meet current standards and maintain availability have become unsustainable.
We are incredibly grateful for your support, contributions and the community you've helped us build. Your engagement has made StepTalk.org a special place and we cherish the memories and connections made here.
We would especially like to thank Aniki for volunteering to be a moderator and for caring so much.
Thank you for being a part of our journey and we wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
Dawn and The StepTalk Team
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She is coming back to near
She is coming back to near her BM who is a lunatic....and she is going to have a baby....more shit to start. I wish we could move!
Im sure she won't let me near
Im sure she won't let me near the baby. I have come to the conclusion, it is their loss, not mine. Just gonna be hard for me to do, I do not have any Kids myself. Lots of neices and nephews and great ones....but none myself. Gonna be a hard one. Already starting with the calls asking for things.
My SD is 24, she is a
My SD is 24, she is a beautiful loving person to everyone but me. She and her husband are very religous as he is a youth minister, she works for small baptist school. My HD left her mother after years of a bad marraige. The mistake he made was he left her and moved in with me before he divorced. So of course I am blamed as the one who ruined the marraige. But truth is and he has told them he and BM had been having trouble for years, but that don't matter they still blame me.
If we could get them to see the truth things might be better, but until he opens up and tells all they still will blame me.
Until this happens we will never be able to have any kind of relationship.
I don't try, my HD keeps them
I don't try, my HD keeps them in the picture. I would rather they stay where they are or we can move. And yes, hypocrite to say the least. She used to beat the SD's with the bible while guzzling whiskey. Go figure. Cheating...I guess thats a technical term. The marraige had been over for a very long time before we even thought about one. He was only living under same roof. The forgiveness thing is exactly what I thought when talking with the one SD's Minister Husband. He seems to think she has forgiven...but the comments she makes to and about me tell me she is still bitter and unforgiving as she ever was. I was hoping for her to grow up one day and put the past in the past. The BM is suffering from stage 4 non-Hotchkins Lymphnoma. Guess I have a ways to go. So much more baggage than I ever thought possible or hoped for. Guess I should forget the happy simple life I was living before we got together. Its been almost seven years. I have been contimplating Divorce. Better be thinking long and hard about this.
Thanks for all the advice, feels good to just get some of it off my chest!