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November 29, 2005, 6:34 am PST

the same situation

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I have from day one tried to get along with her for the sake of the kids....I know we'll never be friends but we should be able to get along for their sake.  She tells me that my job as stepmom is hard and she wouldn't want to be one.  She says she agrees with what hubby has decided to do to discipline the kdis etc and then she does the opposite (who are we to rule what she does?).  She creates problems that don't need to be there at all.  The kids are 13 (boy) and 15 (girl).  She has three other children -- 10 year old boy by second husband who lives with his dad but she never sees him and then she has two boys ages 2 and 4 months old that live with her and her third husband.  We have two other children -- a 4 year old boy and a 2 year old girl (our daughter is three months younger than her son).   Everytime the kids go there for a weekend they come back with major attitude and sharp tongues...but we try and give them a break as we know it isn't easy on them...Her 13 year old son wants to live with her and we did everything we could to help this to happen but the next step was his mom's and she hasn't done anything to help it to happen since September (although she tells him that he could come and live with her...she won't notarize and file papers with the court).  I agree about the classes idea but I know she wouldn't go!  

  

  

so the same as it was for us when the kids were small.  You can live past this stage.  It seemed like forever at the time.  My  h has 5 they were ages 10 and down to 3 when we stared dating.  Now they are 30 to 21.  We had all the them with us at one time or another.  Also when his daughter was 16 and her newborn baby.   We all get along, except the 21 year old.  we take family vacations have and great holiday's together.  Camping, sking, ice skating days,  Mafia day. It's a game we play.The most important thing (hind sight for us) that we wished we would of done is not to protect the bio so much from the kids.  We took alot of the blame and made up for her failures.  I am not saying be hateful towards her or hurt the kids in any way. I need to back trac some, his children blamed me and my h for alot of things because of the what the bio told the kids.  Children will forgive their parents but they don't forgive the step as easily.  It took us years to become this way.  With alot of hurt feelings and angry words.  You have to get real tough skin and take more than you deserve to be a step parent.  For me I tried to focus on the good and put the bad in the back of my mind.  They are just kids.  Hope this helps
 


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