...that my SCs were only 1 or 2yo like my BS was when my H & I got together. I always felt that if I'd had the opportunity to have input on how they were raised from a very young age that I might've been able to bond with them so that I would now love them like my own.

Unfortunately this was not the case, & after the horrible experience of having SS living in my home for a year & SD around eow I could NEVER agree to allow SD to come & live in my home full-time unless I was just a glutton for punishment which I of course am not.

Well i actually stumbled across this site on google. As i am sitting here in a tizzy over my stepdaughter googling away " how to not hate your stepchild, how to not be angry with your stepchild and everything else i could find, i found this site. Started reading some peoples comments and said OMG i am not going to hell alone, YAY!!! I will have people just like me there! LOL J/K. But honestly, i am very happy i found this site! It makes me not feel so alone and that others too feel my pain.

Well I can only be hopeful that this will piss the judge off when we go to court this week.

Kind of feeling lost in my situation. I've been with the love of my life for the past three years. He has two kids from a previous marriage. Daughter 6 and boy 9. I love the hell out of them, but for the past year and a half it's continuously getting harder and harder. I've helped raise these kids since the girl was three and my bf even tells me that they are my kids too.

I saw this book on Dr. Phil and wondered if anyone had read it and if it had helped. The book's name is, "No one's the Bitch" It suppose to be a guide on how to have a relationship between Mom and Stepmom.

I am still having difficulties in making a decision when it comes to wether staying in my relationship or moving on. my bf of two years is amazing with me he recently suggested we move in together. there is only one problem, he has full custody of 2 girls, one is 4 and the other is 6. the 4 year old acts inappropriately constantly. i have two sons so i love and understand kids and have a lot of patience trust me but he spoils his 2 daughters all the time and does not have actions for their bad behavior.

My dh, son and I moved from MA to Louisianna for his job. I was very much looking forward to the move and the distance this would put between us and the drama. I was also looking forward to living like a real family, instead of this disjointed group that we seemed to be.

Last night DF, the skids, and I sat down to watch the movie "Up" (if you haven't seen it yet, you should!). In the beginning there is a part where the couple is preparing a nursery.

SD5 asks me, "SteppingUuuuup, when are YOU going to have a baby?" I told her we have to get married first. Then she says, "Well when are you gonna get married anyway? I've been waiting FOREVER!" and she rolls her eyes in a sassy way. Then SS2 pipes in with his copying echo, "Yeah! We wait fo' EVA!" and rolls his eyes too. We giggled at them and just said we all have to wait just a little longer.

This is going to be a looong entry about my confrontation with BM last night. She's been giving my boyfriend a hard time about coming to see our house etc. You can read my last blog entry if you need more specifics, but pretty much she's been asking since the first day we moved in there to come see the house and she doesn't even have a car so we always have to drop SS4 off, so she would be coming over just to see my house. My boyfriend was sick of being in the middle, as he should. Why she just can't take no, I don't know. So she wanted me to pick up SS4 so we could chat.