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mother of 1 step-mom of 4

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Hi- I'm new to this site, and blogging for that matter. I am a mother of one teenage son and step-mom to 4 teenage boys. Yep, I went from 1 to 5. I'm struggle after a year & half of marriage for the boys to accept me and my son and I'm getting very discouraged. They are extremely disrespectful toward me and hateful toward my son. They continuously ask me to do for them and flat out refuse and get ugly when I even ask then to clean up their messes. My husband seems to think it's because of different relationships between boys and men and boys and women- I say bologna. Anyone have any previous experience or advice to keep me sane and my marriage intact?

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we've got 6 years left until the last 2 graduate. The oldest stepson gets it though. He and I get along and he helps me out when the younger boys are being challenging. My son and they 2nd stepson are just starting high school and the twins will be in 7th grade. My struggles are 95% with the twins. Their disrespect always comes when their dad isn't home. I try to handle it the best I can without making an uncomfortable siutation worse, but if I always go running to their dad to handle, then I'm the bad guy for "tatteling" on them.

This is all so frustrating.