Brag! Boast! Brag! Boast! Brag! Boast !....Why does my partners 17 year old daughter going on 45 continue to feel the need to posture, position, brag and boast about her life, her boyfriends money, he’s 18 and she describes him has an investor ! Her rich friends, fancy holidays, her new car, her top grades, her looks, her hair her beauty! ... Plus she’s arrogant enough to comment and offer advice to her Mothers friends going through divorce!
Her father, my partner unfortunately lost his job, although thank fully this is very soon to change. In the mean time I have been supporting him through this difficult time. He’s been separated and divorced for 8 years and in that time has very senior roles earning great money most of which he handed over to furnish luxury life style for his ex and kids.

All that has stopped now however this precious little madam shows no compassion, thought or feeling towards her fathers challenges.....Basically rubbing it in.
He describes his ex wife as ‘a woman who bears a grudge like no other’! Using the ‘children as pawns’ and ‘spreading the poison’
I’ve known him for 3 ½ years and from what I have seen not only was he generous with his money but also his time spent with both. However the relationship with his kids has been tenuous to say the least this last 15 months......Round about the time he lost his job and money was not so available for these two.
With us deciding to cement our relationship by the end of the year (we have not made an official announcement yet) we thought we really would try to build some bridges between all concerned however this girl’s behaviour has got worse since I first met her. My two are far from perfect also had quite a privileged up bring however I made sure their feet were always kept firmly on the ground and were both brought up to be respectful and polite.
My partner is upset by all this however he feels partly responsible as he has not taken control of this girls outrageous rude behaviour earlier...She was very much Daddy’s Princess for allot of years before we got together. He gets on very well my two although we have had our moments, challenges with my daughter earlier on in our relationship which we worked very hard together to get her through.
With this girl though I feel like battening down the hatches and pulling up the draw bridge....Feels like she s too far gone !!!..Any advice welcome as I am a compassionate person but just can’t seem to see a way through this.....She’s horrible ;-( Her deep insecurities maybe?