‘It’s too bad she didn’t take no an answer’: Stepmom forces mother-daughter relationship on kid despite her wishes

Being a step-parent is a tough role to fill. You can have all the best intentions in the world and still end up alienating the child because at the end of the day, it’s not up to you, it’s up to them. Step-parents can have beautiful relationships with the kids in their lives, but just …
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Cruel stepdad criticizes 9-year-old for mourning his father: ‘You wouldn’t care this much if I died’

As someone who doesn’t have a stepparent, it can be easy to think that nefarious stepmoms and stepdads are a thing of fairy tales and movies. They’re so omnipresent in these narratives that they stop feeling cliche and start feeling normal. In the Best Picture-nominated movie The Holdovers, the leading teen character has a whole …
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Insecure Dad Tries to Brush of Daughter’s Stepfather as Her Nanny, Gets Put in His Place

Sometimes, the best family we have are the ones who aren’t blood relations. The one upside to being a kid who has a deadbeat parent is that you can have a chance for someone better to come along and make up for them. While this certainly doesn’t always happen, it’s heartening to hear stories where …
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Weird Stepdad Thinks Wife’s 16-Year-Old Daughter Should Pay for Everything Herself

It’s good to teach kids about financial responsibility throughout their lives, but forcing them to buy everything themselves is not the way to do that. One redditor opened up about her spiteful husband, who seems to think it’s totally fine to make her 16-year-old daughter feel guilt-ridden every time she wants something. Because the teenager …
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Unhinged Stepfather Destroys Kid’s Xbox for No Reason, Dad Demands Him to Buy a New One

There’s no be-all and end-all rule book for parenting. Everyone has their own ideas about what makes a good parent, and sometimes differences in opinion can lead to some spicy familial conflict. That said, I think we can all agree that a good rule of thumb is to not be an asshole. Distraught dad u/Hills-Mountains35 …
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