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kryss89's picture

Hi, i'm new here so i'm not really sure how to start off..

I live with my boyfriend and 2 of his 4 children. The two children that live with us are 9 and 11. His other two kids live with their mom and they are 13 and 15. I've had previous problems with his oldest daughter that is 15 which caused her to move out of our house and back to her moms. I do not have a problem with any of the other kids except his 9 year old daughter. I hate to say anything mean because i know she's just a little girl, and maybe she doesn't get that the way she acts gets in between her father and I and our relationship. But I need someone/ something to vent to because i'm going CRAZY!!!!!! I've never had any feelings like this towards anyone in my life and it makes me feel like i'm such a horrible person Sad but here it goes.... I really can't stand her. First of all, she is so rude and has no manners at all. She doesn't flush the toilet or wipe her butt properly, hardly ever washes her hands, burps, farts [at the dinner table!!] and says really rude things to everyone and makes funny of anyone or anything that she doesn't like. She has the most annoying laugh and sometimes I really just can't stand to be around her or even her voice!! She has long beautiful red hair but the whole "red hair" thing makes me think that everything anyone says about redheads being crazy is true!! She thinks she is the cutest thing to ever walk the planet and she's a total brat most of the time. People praise her for her red hair whenever we are out in public and all i can think is that people are crazy because they don't know the real her! Don't get me wrong, I love most things about her. She can be so caring and sweet when she wants to be. My boyfriends other 3 kids don't like her very much either because they feel that he favors her, and HE DOES! He says he doesn't, but you can totally tell just by the way he treats her. He gives her whatever she wants, never corrects her for anything she does wrong, and when her and her brother fight she is the only one that doesn't get in trouble. She picks on her older brother [11 years old] and he really dislikes her! She follows him around, copies everything he does [which i know is normal for any younger sibling to do with their older siblings], she hits and kicks him all the time for no reason, makes fun of him because he has a problem still with peeing the bed. When I wake up in the morning and I come have my coffee in the living room, then I here her bedroom door open after she wakes up and I just want to go back to sleep. Recently, for summer vacation, my boyfriends sister took my boyfriends kids to spend the weekend at her house [only the 9 and 11 yr old]. She said that my boyfriends daughter was being a brat the whole time and she told me that she thought she has an "evil" side to her. I hate to say it, but it's so true!!! So the next weekend after that, his sister took only his 11 yr old son on a camping trip and left the daughter here with me. Her own aunt didn't even want her to go on the trip with them!!! Whenever me and her argue, or she doesn't listen to me, i get so upset I have to hold all my anger in and just let it go. But sometimes when i do lose my cool and i end up yelling at her and sending her to her room, my boyfriend comes out and tells me im picking on her and that im too mean to her! He says this all right in front of her, so she thinks that he is taking her side over mine and she LOVES IT!! after she gets her way, she will walk around the house with this evil little smirk on her face just laughing and grinning. UGH!!! I GET SO IRRITATED WITH HER AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!! does anyone have any advice? or need to know more to help me out??? how can i change my feelings for her so i can actually have a good relationship with my boyfriend and someday get married. Because right now, with her acting like she is, I don't want to get married any time soon. Advise, PLEASE?!

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novemberm's picture

This little girl is NEVER going to change until your boyfriend steps up and sets boundaries. By siding with her, especially in front of you, he is making a huge mistake.

Please do not marry him until you start seeing some changes in his parenting.

I can pretty much guarantee you that this child will continue to get worse. When she becomes a teen, and then an adult-watch out.

My bf has 3 young adult kids (18, 19, 22). Their mother believed in letting them do what they wanted, and taught them that the world revolves around them. My bf worked a lot, and even though he tried setting rules, he did not do enough. This is what he has now:

A morbidly obese daughter (22) who is incredibly lazy, will only work part-time, is angry, manipulative and sneaky

A son (19) who graduated over a year ago, sits on his butt all day, refuses to work, has never worked and is dating a minor

A son (18) who has failed school once, is supposed to graduate next year, but that is doubtful, bc he is high all the time.

They don't live with us-if they did, I would be GONE. NO WAY.

Your bf better wake up! She may get so bad that even he will get upset, and by then, it may be too late-right now he is letting his daughter have the control, and she knows it.

My bf's kids only call when they want money, and they hated me before they met me. He finally has stopped enabling them, but they cannot tolerate rejection, and just get worse.

I wish you luck; your bf is really the only one who can fix this!

kryss89's picture

Thank you. I know your right, but it's just hard to accept because I love him and I love his youngest son [11 yr old] so much. I have moved out already once before, due to personal problems between me and my bf, but I came back because i honestly felt bad because the kids were being neglected by their father because he had to work too much.

Me and his youngest son have such a close relationship and i don't know what i'd do without him. so in the house right now it's like this..

He favors his daughter.

I favor his son, not only because he is such a sweetheart and we get along so well, but because he knows that his dad would always take his sisters side over his. [that's really messed up to say that i favor him, but it's the honest truth.]

So basically it's like me and the son verses him and the daughter.

My boyfriend works graveyard so he sleeps all day and i have to watch the kids. He has NO IDEA how evil she can be towards me and her brother. He will be sleeping and then he hears me yelling at her because she's in trouble or something and he will come out yelling at me asking "what did u do to her?". when i send her to her room or punish her she will slam the door, lay on her bed, start kicking the bed and the wall, scream at the top of her lungs [not crying] and will throw anything she can find at the door. That's the brat side of her. Then when her dad comes at to see what's going on she will stop doing that, and play the victim role and make me look bad so he gets mad at me!! That causes us to fight and sometimes we will go the whole day without talking to each other.

I also know that she has major issues because their mom isn't really in their life. About a year ago their mom had a baby, and now she is pregnant with another one. so i know she feels like forgotten and angry about that... so i'm trying to get her into counseling so maybe she can vent some of her frustration and hopefully that will help.

Did I mention that I am 22, and my boyfriend is 35? So sometimes it feels like she is the evil little sister i NEVER WANTED!

I realize that i put myself in this situation, and that i should have thought about it more before i moved in how hard it would be to take care of his kids, but I can't bring myself to actually quit and leave. I love these kids, no matter how bratty she can be, and i want to see them grow up. I feel like i have to step up and be their mother figure right now because their mom isn't here for them.