**The last thing I wanted was for someone to attempt to call out a dear friend of mine in an unkind way by using my blog as their drunken soapbox. I was frustrated and saddened by conduct unbecoming on this site. I was devastated when a member of this community decided to use this as a forum to bash cops. That is not what we are here for. Stating your opinion is one thing but intentionally antagonizing people is another entirely. It was immature behavior in the highest degree for that blog to ever have been posted. Then the degradation of this very blog into some kind of paranoid state of concern over "princesses and cliques." Silly really. BBB is my friend. A good one. I have many friends here. Many that cross all different backgrounds and interest groups. Sita, Stick, Cruella, BMJen, OHG, BB, TheWife, Thetis, HeavenLeigh, Stepchicka, Middlemom, I could go on. All of these women and many more have helped me at one time or another. And all of them, regardless of whatever "clique" you may think they are in, have helped you or if not you, someone you consider a friend. This is a community, we are all here because we wear the same hat, stepparent. Let's remember what brings us together, instead of trying to tear eachother apart.**

If I knew how to contact you privately, I would have done so.

Steptalk helped me through a really rough transition with my SD. I'm in a much better, healthier and happier place now. I'd love to be able to help people the way so many helped me but I don't like coming here anymore.

I actually feel angrier and dirtier after having read and engaged with many of these posters lately and that makes me sad. Nothing I choose to do in life should leave me feeling uncomfortable, so I'm not doing this anymore.

I don't want to write an angry and castigating post about the site or the moderators because I believe that many more people that happen upon this site will feel relief, hope and support. I just, personally, don't feel good about being here anymore.