I am a SM to a 10 almost 11 year old. She is a sweet girl but is spoiled rotten from both her mom, SD and dad. She is an only child with her mom. Her mom is very insecure. Later on they got divorced and i got together with him. We have two girls together. I also have a son from a previous marriage. His dad is much stricter than I am and so there are not behavior problems with him, yet? Every time the Sd come back to our house, she breaks the rule in our home. But my partner thinks it is ok because her mother helped or did it with her. Example, no fake nails she's 10.

Try breaking down the last 20 years of your life in an hour and a half - I don't think I've talked so much or so fast in my entire life....
I connected with a great therapist in our local Mental Health Clinic to help me with the SD issues and working on my marriage. Nice lady, very smart and understanding. She totally agrees with my decision to back off, and that I am right in assessing that I have been trying too hard all these years, which has simply empowered my SD to hurt me in ways I never imagined.

I want to run far way and never come back. I feel like I can not take one more second of the whining and back talk. We can’t tell her no about anything with out the whining and back talk. I just want to leave. I used to love to be around SD12 and talk to her and hang out and now I can’t stand to even look at her. It’s like there is someone else in my sweet and well-behaved SD. As I posted before DH took a pay cut and now we are struggling. We explained to SD that we are tight on money and things have to change a little bit.

DH and I have not been good since he unleashed the beast earlier this week (see previous post).
Well, today things have been decent, but as soon as younger SD came over (age 5, older SD had plans) things went to shit. She wanted to go to an Italian restaurant, and I said we had everything she wanted here that I could make. She wanted spaghetti and meatballs, and I realized I didn't have any spaghetti sauce.

Wow, I'm new to this site, just found it today. I was looking for something, anything, to try to help me figure out my situation. BTW, I don't even know what all the acronyms are, so I won't be using them. I live with my BF, my 18-year old son and my BF's 12 year old daughter and 9 year old son. My son lives with us 100% of the time and his kids live with us every other week.

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE my life. Last week I realized that I didn't love DH. I was trying to work on the marriage because I felt guilty for getting a divorce. I married him for the idea of him (getting married, having kids, ect.). I am so glad I was smart enough to leave my situation. My life is stress free and great. Im having so much fun. I joined a softball team, have been hanging out with friends, just doing what I want and enjoying life.

How can I ignore this ex wife???? School is back in sessions and she is just a monster during this time of year. very CONTROLLING How can I not let her bother me any advice??

My H and his kids left last tuesday, after a harsh month of me and my baby being ignored, when i got home they were finishing loading up the truck with their stuff (and some of mine)...and I felt sooo relieved and happy to finally take control of my own place again with nobody giving us a stink face

Although I really don't like shuffling the skids around like a chauffeur, having them back in school once again is giving me a much needed relief during the day. Since this is the longest I have had to take care of them practically non-stop (it didn't help that my husband was away on business for 4+ days a week) I was just about ready to jump off a cliff with all the "I'm hungry" and "I'm bored".

Just wondering if they exist. Wondering if I can ever be happy in a future relationship considering that most likely any man I end up with will have kids.