Do you ever feel like you are are always second on everybodys list? I do ALL the time. Between my husband and my mother I feel like I am in a hole a cannot get out. I feel as if the water is being filled up with water and eventually I will drown.

My husband is all about his child and I am glad that he loved her so much. But, at some point it is time to be a parent. It is time to step up and stop being a friend. He cannot tell her no and he talks to her like she is still 5 years old. She is almost 15 now and is the biggest brat/B**CH that I know. She get everything she wants and knows how to play the system. I have really lost respect for my husband due to how he treats her.

My mother has got to be in control of every situation and at any point is she looses control she will turn into the meanest nastyiest person who have ever me. It is like she is bi-polar or something. i am tired of always being her beating post. I love her, but she really brings me down mentally and physically.

Then my 23 year old step-son who still lives at home with his mom (the ex). Wo has no life goals about where is wants to be. We still pay (ALL) his cell bill and when I bring this up to my husband he gets all defensive. And the step son has the nerve to come to our house and hang with our friends and then steal some things from us (not really that much $$, but its the fact of the matter). At what point, is my husband going to grow some balls and stand up to his 23 yer old son and tell him to stop being a LEACH!

I feel as if I at a breaking point. I want and feel as if I need to disengage. Why do people feel like to make themesevles happier they have to beat you down.

I have two step kids that are leaches a mother who is bi-polar and a husband who trys to avoid every serious conversation we have that deals with the two leaches.

What have I done to myself?