‘She’s not my parent’: 43-year-old stepmom who can’t cook forces ‘parental bonding’ with 17-year-old stepson by asking him to teach her basic meals, son refuses to participate

If you’re a full-grown, able-bodied adult and you can’t cook, there is something wrong with you. No offense, but there is. We literally need food to survive. So it’s hubristic to think that your needs will be met magically despite you not knowing how to. Maybe you have someone in your life who cooks for …
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‘[I don’t] want to deal with her kid’: Dad’s girlfriend demands her 15-year-old ‘stepson’ handle night parenting for her clingy 5-year-old, then the teenager forces her to parent by locking his door

This teenager set boundaries with Dad’s new girlfriend after she and her 5-year-old son moved in, protecting his peace and locking his door after the clingy child refused to let him sleep. I’m not an only child, but sometimes I wish I was. Dealing with a sibling can be emotionally taxing, especially if you have …
Seguir leyendo ‘[I don’t] want to deal with her kid’: Dad’s girlfriend demands her 15-year-old ‘stepson’ handle night parenting for her clingy 5-year-old, then the teenager forces her to parent by locking his door

Stepmom gifts 21-year-old stepson family vacation with twin 3-year-olds, refuses to allow him to bring his girlfriend of 2 months: ‘Parents usually have to bribe their older children to come on a trip like this’

Family vacations aren’t always purely relaxing. If you’ve ever been on one, you know this. Family dynamics don’t cease once you’re on a beach, at a hotel, or at an Airbnb. Everyone continues to be themselves, so conflict is still bound to arise if it usually does anyway. This is especially true if young children …
Seguir leyendo Stepmom gifts 21-year-old stepson family vacation with twin 3-year-olds, refuses to allow him to bring his girlfriend of 2 months: ‘Parents usually have to bribe their older children to come on a trip like this’

13-year-old stepdaughter constantly lies about everything, leaves her 6-year-old, 4-year-old, and 6-month old siblings unattended and runs away for 6 hours: ‘She to this day won’t tell us where she was’

Kids lie about a lot of things. I would wager that most of the lies that kids tell are because they’re trying not to get in trouble. If your mom asks you, «Why were you and your girlfriend in your car in the Dollar General parking lot for 45 minutes?» you better answer, «We were …
Seguir leyendo 13-year-old stepdaughter constantly lies about everything, leaves her 6-year-old, 4-year-old, and 6-month old siblings unattended and runs away for 6 hours: ‘She to this day won’t tell us where she was’

‘She is free to go to her mother’: Stepmom kicks out her entitled 21-year-old stepdaughter after she demands to user her car over Christmas break and throw a New Years Eve party at her house when she has a 2 and 5-year-old

When you’re a college student, it’s difficult to suddenly lose the level of autonomy you’ve grown used to when you go home for the holidays. You’ve spent the past 4 months being able to go anywhere you want and do anything you want, but come Christmastime, you have to go back to asking your mom …
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Entitled stepmom rages at 17-year-old stepdaughter after she excludes her from a spa day with her 2 grandmas and her mom: ‘I told her she’s not as important and has to accept that because she’s not my second mom

I hate when people in their 40s drag teenagers into their adult problems. I know parents who complain about their spouse to their children and ask for advice on managing their marriage. It’s totally age-inappropriate, and it puts the labor of fixing relationships on kids who aren’t even in said relationships.  Sometimes, adult problems involve …
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25-year-old woman refuses to cough up father’s inheritance, including a family cabin and cash, and share it with her 22-year-old half-sister: ‘My dad’s wishes were clear’

When someone close to you passes, the last thing you want to do is get into a family feud regarding the assets your loved one left behind. Will readings exist to ensure that loved ones receive what the departed intended to leave for each person. Even though the time after a loved one passes should …
Seguir leyendo 25-year-old woman refuses to cough up father’s inheritance, including a family cabin and cash, and share it with her 22-year-old half-sister: ‘My dad’s wishes were clear’

26-year-old stepdaughter accuses her dad’s wife of being illiterate after she took a month to fill out her dad’s FMLA forms: ‘You know you’re illiterate so let me just do the paperwork’

Far more adults in the United States are functionally illiterate than you may realize. 54% of US adults have a literacy rate below a 6th-grade level, and about 43 million are functionally illiterate. Being functionally illiterate doesn’t mean you don’t know how to read at all. It means you have a literacy rate that makes …
Seguir leyendo 26-year-old stepdaughter accuses her dad’s wife of being illiterate after she took a month to fill out her dad’s FMLA forms: ‘You know you’re illiterate so let me just do the paperwork’

Stepmom considers divorcing her husband because his 13-year-old daughter despises their 4-month-old baby: ‘She will scream that he is not her brother’

Teenagers are known to act out for seemingly irrational reasons. Grown-ups constantly muse over the vacillating emotional state of the average 13-year-old, but they often forget what it was actually like to be 13. Young teens don’t act out because they enjoy making their parents miserable but because they themselves are genuinely miserable and don’t …
Seguir leyendo Stepmom considers divorcing her husband because his 13-year-old daughter despises their 4-month-old baby: ‘She will scream that he is not her brother’

17-year-old son refuses to defend step mother after she tries to prevent him and his sister from seeing their birth mom on Halloween and Christmas: ‘We were staying with our family’

Spending time with family during the holiday season is really important, especially for kids who have divorced parents. Though step-parents have the potential to be great parental figures for children, it all depends on how they show respect for the kids. If a step-parent tries to force the child’s hand, demand respect but not give …
Seguir leyendo 17-year-old son refuses to defend step mother after she tries to prevent him and his sister from seeing their birth mom on Halloween and Christmas: ‘We were staying with our family’