Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / August 2006

My wife and I have been married for 11 years now. Her son from a
previous marriage is 18, soon to be 19 this Sept. He still lives with
us and has a truck payment so he needs to work. Well this is the
kicker. He either gets fired or quits every job he has had and now he

A month ago, a lady we know opened a little coffee shop in town.  Last
week, YD changed from the place where she'd been working over to the
new coffee shop.  They close at 9pm on weeknights, but Fridays and
Saturdays they're open until midnight.  It's a nice place to sit and

Sigh. Okay, since we're getting all friendly with misc.kids (-: I'm
cross-posting this from ASSP.  But I don't read you guys all the time, so
keep the cross-post if you can help, okay?
My 3yo is about to go to preschool.  We're enrolled, we've been doing the

Hey ~
Check your email, something on the way.
Rebecca

I'm a biological mother that is involved in her childrens lives and has
custody of them. My problem is that my ex husband remarried last year,
the new wife doesn't work. My children attend the same school as her
children. She does a lot of activities at the childrens school and

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!
It's been 5 days since YS got home from BF's.  We'd had 5 weeks (out of
the 8 YS was gone) of Chewy being great to be around, not coming home
from work grouchy, not taking offense at the drop of a hat, not being

Things have not been good between DH and I for a while now. During
the last two years, we've went from 'doing okay' to 'not doing so
good but not openly fighting' to, starting around January, 'big
battles, lots of tears <on my part>, no communication and just