This is the first year that SS11 has lived with me and his dad. We've worked our asses off to help him pass the 5th grade, get better study habits, learn about and tend to his hygiene, eat real food, including vegetables (as opposed to microwave burgers, tater tots and ramen noodles), become more mature and more responsible, etc... He's doing so much better and is so much more healthy in every way.

Last year, around the time my husbands ex found out she would not be getting child support as there was no order and she refused him is equal visitation my step daughter 2 at the time started saying I hit her. I was pregnant at the time and was devastated. I have never hit her. She would say it when we were all around people all the time and for the most part everyone knew it wasn’t true. Now she is 3 and HATES me. I cry all the time.

Well where do i start. she is a b**tch. i have done everything for her since she was & years old. i cant win. i am done with here. forget about me paying for college or anything for her. she is on her own. and her mothe is a whore just like her. i want out of everything i give up.

I'm tired. I don't want to live like this.

DH is suppose to get SD this Fri. for his weekend, but for the 3rd weekend in 1 1/2 months, SD is not coming. It's always something. She's too sick, she has a tummy ache, she has soccer try outs. DH gets a text from BM yesterday afternoon that said:

BM: Just a heads up, SD has indicated to me that she will be spending Friday night with me. She has soccer tryouts tomorrow(Thur) Fri and Sat.

Geesh...always something. This weekend SD came out asking to use my oldest sons mp3...I said you have to ask him,...she pouted and said he woudl say no..I repeated-I think he'll be ok with it but it IS his and you have to ask him and accept his answer. Earlier you took (youngest son) bike w/out permission and when we came back you were riding it outside and my son was mad.

I think my husband is dumbass. One of the biggest dumbasses I have ever met. We went to see the broadway play "How to succeed in business without really trying". It had the young man from Harry Potter in it! It was a amazing experience. It was one of my dreams to see a show on Broadway but we never had the money. SS gave us the tickets. He got them from someone at work and I was extremely thankful. After the show we stayed the night at SS's apartment because it was late and it was a bit of a distance to drive home.

Do we have to send SS10 to her mother's house on the weekends if she doesn't want to go. She tells us all these things about what goes on over there and they are not pretty. She cried for an hour last night that she doesn't want to go.

This is not meant in any way to offend or hurt anybody's feelings. so, let's not go "flag offensive" crazy!

just wondering who all is tuning into the royal wedding???

i am definitley dvr'ing it in case i don't wake up, but i am so NOT buying memorabilia for it....

just so exciting, going from a country girl to a princess!! i didn't turn into a princess when i married, but i felt like one and wore my tiara proud!!

I am brand new to this sight. I welcome any input and advice. im 29 my husband is 35. we have 4 children together and he has 3 from another marriage and one that he had in his teens. he is a hard worker and loving. my step daughters have lived with us since they were 4 and 5 now are 14 and 15. i do not call them my step daughters i refer to them as my daughters.the 2 boys live with their moms. so we have 6 kids here at home. anyhow my oldest daughter has been bumping heads with me for a few years now.

Is so long to tell I need a few days to get it all put together but here is the short version.

Married since 2001
Im 39 my DH is 52
Stepmother of 2 young ladies 24 and 22
raising the son of the oldest SD

I feel used, unloved, taken advantage of and that's just the half of it