So my wife in discussing the latest antics of my SD (taking the rap for somebody else and saying it was her weed) asked me to trust her and let her deal with my SD and I can just focus on other things so I'm not stressed out all the time. The problem is that the SD living with us is the youngest and has always been babied. Mom has always been there to help get her out of whatever mess she was in. Since we've been together, we have done more for my youngest SD than we have for the other 3 combined.

My DH feels that sending his son to a summer camp for 1-2 week is not acceptable. I think he feels guilty and is afraid SS will feel like he's being abandoned. I explained it was all in the way you handle it with SS and if you make it sound fun then the kid will be excited vs upset. Also, camp would give "US" a break from the drama and allow "US" to rekindle the flame. Not to mention SS10 would enjoy having fun in the great outdoors and playing with children his own age.

SS has still been ignoring all of my DH's attempts to contact him. Emails, calls, texts, no response. So my DH (I have no idea why!!), thinks it is a good idea to post on SS's wall to get him to talk. Yes DH, that's exactly what we need, broadcasting your conversation to all of SS's 305 friends. Some of DH's family is also in that list. He posts a message saying he is so happy about about the scholarship (which I will not believe SS has got until I see proof), and how he misses SS and wishes he would can talk with SS soon. What a stupid idea. Of course, SS comes back raging.

I have been married for over 4 years to three step children's father. The step son and I have absolutely no issues, he is so nice, so polite....The two step daughters are the issue, no matter how hard I have tried to be nice to them, they treat me as if I was dirt. This is just one example over the past four years: The youngest is getting married in September, and this past week we travelled from Georgia to Virginia to attend a "cocktail party".

Isn't this an excellent idea? Widows/widowers have enough grief of their own to deal with, without any additional stress inflicted by the money-hungry "entitled" ones.
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'Peter left the bulk of his estate to Shera,' a source told the showbiz website. 'The house that the two of them lived in together, art work, investment accounts, and more have been left to Shera.

Now I am interested in action! A vision to have a law created and passed to give stepparents legal rights to the children they raised for at least 7 years or more as a stepparent to that child. Any thoughts?

Hey everyone,
I've been away for a couple of months due to personal reasons ... My old name was Midnight Faery for those of you who can remember me ...

Anyways, quick recall ...

I've blogged about my DH's BM keeping the kids and deciding not to return them after summer visit. She dropped all 3 skids off at a female cousins house way across the country and dipped out on deployment. My husband has yet to make a move. He's miserable, distracted, and depressed. He is torn because the BM lied and said the skids don't feel welcomed in our home. that's the biggest load of BS I've ever heard!!! plain and simple. The manipulative youngest wants to be around individuals who cater to her every move.

I can’t believe how my life can be turned upside down, spun into a frenzy and everything I have worked hard for just ripped away from me and I have no control over it. All because of a fucken 16 year old shithead and his mother.

Please read my first blog if you want to make sense of this one. BM has decided to accuse me of child abuse (mentally not physically). Me, child abuse, me, I can’t believe it. Me, the miss goodie two shoes of the family. Me, the person who has worked with children all my life.

I seriously don't know what's wrong with my MIL. My DH called her to give the happy news that we're expecting, and guess what her reaction was?

"Oh great, another grand-kid I won't get to see as often as I'd like to."

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She lives in another state, and we can only afford to travel to see her once a year or so. And frankly, with an attitude like this I don't really enjoy going to see her anyway.

Sigh.