Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / June 2007

My husbands 4 children (all adults between 19 and 25) continually
request loans, most of which do not get paid back.
3 of these "kids" are chronically unemployed, usually because of their
lame work habits.

Problem.  Help?  It's not big stuff (or stuff I would consider big) it's the
dumbest most stupid sh.t ever.  And I admit, I'm baffled.  As many of you
know, we have zero to smallish communication with BM, mostly along the lines
of what an a.shole DH is and how everything is ...

I'm very new at this step parenting thing and I feel like everyone I
talk too doesn't give me advice. Most I hear is ''leave the
relationship with your finance before it's too late!'' or ''You should
love this child right away and be more understanding and it's easy to

I didn't want to hijack that other thread, so I'll ask here.  How are things
going?  Is Chewy still paying attention?
Vicki

To step moms... I found this site very interesting, although it's only
for Canadian moms.. They have some cool features on their menu such as
Pictures/Videos and Blogs section.. I like it a lot so what do you
think?  They also have a section in their forum for step parent.. I

i'm currently involved with an amazing man. he has 2 kids, i have 3.
at some point we know we want to be married and even have kids
together. currently everything is seperate finance wise.
the problem i'm having is that i'm very bad off financially. i've had