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My brother, the stepchild

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My parents divorced 18 years ago.  My father remarried 14 years ago and my mother remarried 12 years ago.  Our stepparents have been in our lives a very long time.  I get along with both.  I have good boundaries with them, I am polite and I would even say I am close to both.  They are very good for my parents and I appreciate them for that and more.  They are not my parents, but they are an extra relationship that I get to have because they are solid supports and good people for my parents.

Oh, the laziness!

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So BM and SS18 are making a point to send my DH emails that say that SS18 can't look for a job because there's no point in him getting one if he can't get there because DH hasn't provided the 18 year old who doesn't have a driver's license with a vehicle.  I guess they think this will make my DH cave and buy him a car?  That somehow saying that is going to make my DH feel guilty and punished or that he's holding back his only poor child who can not get to a job.  When my DH asekd if my SS18 had his driver license yet. he said he had worked on it "a little".

Supporting adult children in Nuclear Families & Blended Families

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In your opinion, should a couple's retirement be the priority over funding college for children?  Or living expenses for adult children?  

I see a trend in the world in general towards adults living above their own means and needing parents to help out financially.  It seems to last a long time nowadays.

Is there any difference in steplife vs nuclear families?  Should there be?

The Car Situation

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So DH feels that SS18 does actually need a car, even if it is BM's fault for living in a place with no transportation, no jobs and no real benefits.  He has been very entitled and refusing to accept a hand me down car in the past.  If you read my past blogs the car issue has been a major insult to injury situation with my DH offering him his old car before we sold it to a friend a few years ago when SS18 said he would never drive a used Honda that was 8-9 years old.

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Two more checkss and CS is done

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I spoke to the CS office yesterday and they confirmed that after two more checks (including Monday's check) they will send a letter to stop the income withholding from DH's paychecks for BM's CS.  Any money that comes in after that (depending on how long the withholding takes to stop) will come back to us in the mail. Less than a month!

Letter from Child Support Office & College Plans changing

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We received a letter from the child support office recently. I called to confirm what it means. Basically my DH has paid his child support early enough times when BM needed extra money (always through CS office for the last several years at least) such that his child support will end a few months early. He has prepaid almost $3000 in child support in the last couple of years, so they will stop sending her payments about 2 months before SS17 turns 18.

I feel for my DH today

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Through another person my DH found out that SS17 lied to him when he told him he was out of town and couldn't get together over Thanksgiving.

That person was invited by BM and SS17 to spend time together in town over Thanksgiving, which means they weren't out of town.

My DH is hurt and pissed.

To me, he said "That little shit. He's just like BM" about SS17, who claimed he couldn't get together for a meal because they were several states away. One meal only.

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