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With ST winding down in the next couple of days, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has followed my story and provided support and advice. I cannot imagine where I'd be today without the support from ST.
I will be joining the new site, but wanted to give one final update.
Well, you've all helped me tremendously yet again. I really appreciate all of the comments on my blog and have been reading them over and over. I've come to an understanding of why my resentment for things far in the past has not died down at all.
It’s ready. Many thanks to the 'test subjects' who gave input to help me tweak and update it. I can still make changes as we go.
It would much appreciated if you register with your current username. If you want to use a new one, please let me know. The process for approval is slightly different in Step Chat, but all new users will be vetted.
If you have questions, please message or email me (I have an email solely for SC).
https://steptalkforum.boardhost.com
Hope to see you there! *pleasantry*
She imploded her family not even 8wks ago and is now posting pics of she and her multi gen train wreck of a GF canoodling on FB.
Who does that to their kids?
I took a pit stop break yesterday, easy to do when your home office is 6 steps from the bathroom, and up popped SIL's FB update. I will say, grudgingly, that SIL actually looks alive. Something that she has not expressed in many years. I want to smile for her. However, adultery being one of my complete write off triggers, I can't do it.
I've been questioning myself a lot in the last several months about whether or not I even love DH anymore. If I do, I definitely don't love him like I used to. I do not have the same level of respect that I used to and I still have a ton of resentment even though DH went through massive changes to make me happy.
When I first joined steptalk it was under a different username and I made a whole new account once DH and I got married. When I first joined Steptalk it was a couple of months after DH and I had gotten together. DH was going through a divorce and custody battle fighting to keep his rights to a child that he had found out was not biologically his. I had never dated a man with kids and I needed the support plus a place to vent about the drama with BM and the unusual situation with BM's older daughter.
The last few weeks of StepTalk have left me reminiscing about our HCBM and our toxic co-parenting journey, specifically how I found StepTalk and how much we have grown since. I came to StepTalk in 2019. DH and I were newlyweds (despite being together for 6 years) and we had just initiated a custody battle with HCBM to enforce DH's parental rights that she continued to violate after moving out of state.
Tech set up scripts are running on my company lap top. I have several calls later today.
This is in incredible place. The most structured interviewing, onboarding, and engagement practices and processes I have every seen or experienced. I think this may just be the work nirvana my soul has been searching for.
The onboarding model has my next 3wks fully scheduled, meetings with all of the peers and exects I am to collaborate with are prescheduled. A truly incredible level of struture and professionalism.
Below is the body of an E-mail I recently received regarding success strategy in high conflict X situations.
I believe that the concept is equally applicable in th extended blended family environment in dealing with Xs, ill behaved kids of any age but even more so with (S)kidults, XILs, current ILs, our own partner, and our own family members who are incapable or unwilling to be reasonable. The best tool to deal with them is factual evidence.
Whether or not we find another place to land (thank you, Aniki), I just want to express my gratitude for this site and everyone here.