Yesterday morning was a good morning. DH and I shared breakfast, coffee and the paper. He started his laundry, we made a tentative menu for dinner because we were having his nephew and a friend of his kid's over later. Then he took his daughter for a haircut and shopping for something she needed. I went and got a pedicure.

I was so hoping for a phone call to say SD11 had better plans and wouldn't be coming this weekend. DH is so stressed when she's there that's he's taken to drinking and smoking dope just to manage. I'm not joking, that is how bad it's become. Yesterday SD was so hateful to all of us, especially me. If I ask her if she needs something(she was looking for pants and I said, they're in the dryer, I'll go get them) she said "I don't need anything from you" in such a snotty tone.

I'm married and we have a 10 month old. My husband has a 8 year old daughter from a previous relationship. She doesn't seem to like me at all. My husband and I have been together for over 3 years and nothing has changed. This sounds awful too but i don't trust her to be left alone with my child. She has no manners and is not disciplined although she is not badly behaved. My husband doesn't seem to understand how i feel and i cant really talk to him or anyone else about this as i dont know anyone who is in the same kind of situation as me. Not sure where to go from here!!

me and dh got married this past monday bm has been acting weird, weirder than normal since she claimed that dh was sexually abusing sd6 last month. Totally not true of course, because just on mothers day weekend,that friday she called dh and asked if he would take sd for the weekend so she could 'have fun'.

Part of the reason it's been so helpful for me to find this site is that the concept of "steps" and "halves" is considered "unacceptable" in my family. People in my family EXPECT me to love my SCs like my own & will even call my SD my "daughter" which makes me extremely uncomfortable. My own mom is the biggest culprit of this!

I swear just when you think things are getting better they don't. DH picked up SD Friday. I decided I was going to try my best to start this weekend off with an open mind - a preview of what it might be like to have SD for the summer.

Ok, so DH and I got into this argument, inititated by my great curiosity and my thirst to micromanage every detail. We had not seen BM since she was pregnant, but she already had her baby and DH was going to pick SD6 today at BM's house. I asked, out of curiosity if he was going to ask to see the baby, he said no, and then I asked, what would he say if she asked if he wanted to see him? and he said "I'd say sure" and then I proceeded to ask him if we have a baby of our own, would he ask her if she wants to see him/her and he basically said "yes, that would be SD6's sibling".

It's not a big deal but it totally annoyed me, especially since he's very much aware I no longer encourage or want a relationship with his kid (long, long, boring story).

can anyone help me?

So ladies, and gentlemen if you have input How does your BM or EX dress while your picking up or dropping off kids and vice versa?? The entire time me and BF have been together his BM/EX-W dresses like a complete scank!! For fun BF and I always try to guess what she will be wearing LOL! She is in her 30s and a M of 3, and dresses like a 17 year old going out to the club!