This is one intense show.  If the first episode is indicative of the whole series, this is going to be an emotional roller coaster.

Not specifically step related but certainly some parallels to what parents in general and far too many SParents struggle with regarding early teens and beyond.

This is way toooooo long btw.  I'll start with my appologies.

DW was late getting home last night.  Not unusual. It is tax season and she works batshit crazy hours from Mid Jan through Mid Apr.

Anyway, she texts last night about an hour later than she usually calls on her way home from the office.  She was sitting in the garage on the phone with her aunt.  I did not hear the garage door open since we are in a cold snap and the heat is cycling on and off periodically.

She has a couple of social media platforms.  I received this e-m today.  We, DW and I, came up with the tacics we used to confront and mitigate the toxic spermclan.  What we evolved to with the SpermClan is not dissimilar to what Billie references in the e-m below.

We have been binge watching some very good shows. Good until likable characters cheat.  I grind my teeth, and am incensed when this happens.  I lose contact with reason and my intellect. Something I have never done on any other topic.  

My XW was a serially adulterous cheater.  Even nearly 35 years post divorce the topic is infuriating.  Cheating is obviously my lingering baggage and major trigger.  I have zero tolerance for it to the point that it drives a visceral revulsion at the core of my being for the slime that does it. Even when it is fiction.