You are were so helpful with my last topic "is $200 not enough for a birthday gift", so I thought I would ask this question also. My BF & I have been together for 5 years - he lived with me but moved out twice because of disagreements that at the time could not be worked thru. He has been living with a friend & pays rent to this friend (who asked him to move out) and buys groceries. So we have been seeing each other again & he has stayed here for overnight for the last 4 weeks & has not given me one cent.

Blog Hog Day! Yippie!
DH calls and says "Fading can you pick up SD on your way home from work? She is spending the night." Ummm. WHAT? This wasn't mentioned to me before. Her room isn't even unpacked or ANYTHING. So I guess my night will be full of SD whining because "her toys are in boxes and Fading isn't unpacking fast enough". And of course the in&out crap. Plus it's a new place and SD ALWAYS has a hissy fit at night and ends up bawling and screaming because the water heater noises bug her... Thanks for the surprise DH, thanks a fricken ton. Ass.

So after seeing SILs post on FB I started to feel bad for Dh. She is the last of his family in the area talking to us and its obvious she's crazy.

I have a 16 year old SD who has lived with us full time for about 3 years. She does what she wants, goes where she wants, stays out as late as she wants. She only helps around the house when she has company coming over to stay the night with her. She is failing school and her dad thinks he is her best friend. I told her father she has enough friends and needs a father more. He thinks he is dong the right thing. He spends lots of family time with both of us and realy loves his daughter. He just needs to step up.

yesterday i had all my pre op stuff for my tumor and thyroid removal surgery tomorrow. i got done late enough that i didnt go to work.....last week when we got ss, he was coughing, he got a little better, but was still coughing. he went back to bm on thursday, friday being her day off, she said she would take ss to the doctor. well, we got him monday and she had not taken him. so i ask dh if he wants me to take ss since i have the rest of the day off, and since we have him this weekend, i dont want him sick while i re coup.

SD-17 pregnant on purpose and her parents are just now realizing there might be a problem -- only because I told them I am done and outta there.

I know they realize that neither one can control their own daughter. I set limits/rules and I expect them to be followed. Period. DH has fought me all the time. So I had enough. Now it's up to them.

She was failing when we got married. SD was not going to graduate and she is a senior - and she didn't care. Now she has As/Bs. I have to stay on her all the time - but she knows she has to do the work.

Ok, ready,set, GO!

A friend came over to visit us last night and we began talking about his family. He has a 3 year old daughter and has been in a relationship with someone for 2 years. As of yet, he does not want to introduce his GF to his daughter because he does not want his daughter to hear the term "GF" just yet. I asked him if he thought that was a good idea and he said he did because his BM would flip if she knew the baby was around another woman (mind you, from what friend tells us, BM has a new bf all the time, and she exposes the 3 yr old to that).

I love my husband. I know he cares for me. He tells me all the time that he appreciates everything that I do for him and the skids. He tells me that he thinks I'm a very strong person for some of the things he's seen me go through in the short time that we've been together. I hear him tell me these things but I don't know if I completely believe him. I don't "feel" that he loves me. When I'm really upset he doesn't do much to console me. I'm never sure if this is because he just doesn't KNOW how to deal with it or if he just doesn't WANT to.

this website is new to me and i have got some wonderful advice from a lot of you. I have learned that my ss is only looking for the mom in me that he doesn't get from BM. thats thanks to some of you. thanks so much for everyone's advice.sometimes good advice is hard to swallow when you know its right!