Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / July 2006

Some days I feel like walking away, but trading one set of problems for
anothe ris not always the answer I know.
I have been married to my husband for 10 years now, my daughter was 3
when we got married, and the battle still continues,  i am tired of the

I'm a new member, and I'd like to share with you what my life was like
with a bad stepmother, and then invite responses.  I choose this topic,
because I am a former fundamentalist Christian, and if we weren't
hearing "God" every sunday, we were hearing "don't blame your stupid

YS is scheduled to arrive home on Wednesday.  Everyone's been looking
forward to his return.
For the past several days, he's been calling home every night.  Unusual
for him.  I knew something was up.

Hopefully some can help me here.  My son is 17 and a typical teenage
boy.  My husband doesn't want him in the house.  He says he is
disrespectful and he doesn't like him.  My son does not do anything any
other teenage boy does.  In fact everyone always tells me how

I once again am probably rocking the boat here but I need some
impartial advice. I am 28 years of age. At the age of ten my mother
died tragically. I was the youngest and all my siblings were in
boarding school. I was always close to my most amazing father and still

Here is a copy of an email that I got today.  I like it and thought you guys
might too. It's from Parentcoachplan.com
Here are some great tips for parents.  Read them as though it is your child
talking to you.  Forward this to all the parents you know...it might get

You're probably going to rip me a new one, because I'm a step-kid,
not a parent but I'm going to post this here anyway. Becasue I have
to talk to somebody.
I've got a problem with my stepfather, and I don't know how to deal

I have searched and searched!
I can't find definitions for all the abbreviations that are used in
this group
OS

Dr. Phil has a show on now about family freeloaders and so far, is pretty
good.
NBC if anyone can catch it too.
Amanda

He starts a new job tomorrow.  Yippee!!!
I'm soooo happy he's dug in and gotten a job so quickly!  I was afraid
he'd mess around and not get a job, then get in with the wrong crowd
again.

Did you know, on google groups, you can now view a profile of people
subscribed to a newsgroup?  I clicked on my own, it shows what groups I
belong too (okay, well, this one, anyway), how many posts I've done life to
date, and a month-by-month of numbers that you can click on to ...

I am in the military, in one province for training.  While I was here, I
met a girl who has a 4-year old daughter.  Once I complete my training,
in January, I will be posted to my unit which will be in a different
province.

OK, I got used to ass-p being alive again.  Where are y'all?
Vicki

Two more days until we fly him to Wisconsin.  I stopped by TF's house
to get the money I'd given to OS for a new photo ID the other day,
knowing he'd not gotten the ID and my gas tank was red-lining.  Chewy's
pay-day is tomorrow, so we can go for the ID then.

It must be because I've posted to this group again, and I happened to
mention that I haven't seen BM for two years.  So WTF do you think happened?
I saw her tonight.  I wanted to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.  Is that
normal?