Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / January 2004

      Just to let you guys know I just got married around January the
15 to my beautiful wife. She has 2 kids (10yr old girl and 8yr old
boy) from former lover. Now I knew going into this that there were
going to be problems with BIO Dad. Because of the background stuff

Thanks everyone who replied to my last post. I took everyones advice and gave future SS time alone with his dad. They went to a birthday party on Saturday. When I came home Saturday night, future SS and his two friends were there, which is fine. They were all running around ...

Ok, stepping aside from OT topics for a second, I have to share this story.
Friday was the release of the new book, *The Age of Cunard*.  Brian designed
the cover concept and I have two photographs taken by my very own self in the
book (well, one is the author picture on the book ...

Talked the the ex tonight.  Lately, he's cancelled a lot of his time with the
kids.  Some--probably even most of it --- is work related.  Some of it is
not... "I've got plans."  No problem.  Well... actually, it has been a bit of a
problem sometimes, when DH and I would like to do ...

My son is 16 and has a part time job. It's the summer holidays so he is
working a lot and making a lot of money. Due to his lack of time at home we
have found it easier to let him off the hook from doing his chores around
the house and instead have agreed he will pay board instead. ...

    I am a newbie posting in here so, please bear with me, lol. I am the
mother of two little girls, my own. I am also the SM of my hubby's two boys, 8
and 9 years old. I am having some major problems with the youngest. I will call
him Bill from here on in this posting.

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Thank you all for your responses. You've really made me think. And
made me wonder why I do still stick around. And I've thought and
thought. And I realize that I think it's due to my own weakness. I'm
no young 20-something who could land a man without even trying. And

Hello! I'm new to this board, so I guess an introduction is in order. I'm also hoping to gain some insight from other stepmoms, or divorced families with more experience.
I have been married to my wonderful husband for almost three years now, and he has a 12-year-old son that is ...

    I would like to know what some of the rest of you here on the board
think about children coming and going in the parents bedroom?
    The reason I ask is this. I am a fairly private person, in that I don't
like anyone messing around on my desk, personal dresser space, things ...

I have spent alot of time reading posts, this board seems great!
Without going into the whole history of BM being loopy and playing mind games with anyone involved, I have a recent issue I would like some input on.
SD lives with us, and SS lives with BM. Last time SD (14) was at ...

Vicki, since you're the only one I know here who uses trn to read
news, I thought maybe you could help me out.  Accidently (and I have
absolutely *no* idea what keys I hit to do this) I killed an entire
thread.  I don't know how to rescind whatever command I issued to kill

Once again, Kayla has decided to skip visitation this weekend.  After
not hearing from her, which is pretty strange but we had that big
Christmas day after exchange drama - she sent me an email to see if
she could go on a date with this senior.  I didn't reply, so she

I'm a relatively new step-mom.  My husband and I have been married almost a year and I knew him and his son (8 yrs old now) for many years before.  In the beginning, I felt great about the situation.  I loved this kid with all my heart; I still do.  He lives with his mother and ...

Thought i would come here to seek advice on a problem i' have... reading
from the posts here, i feel that someone(s) may have some words of wisdom or
may have had similar problems in the past, that might help me to deal with
the situation i am in...