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I've decided that I need to finally erase these people from my life. It has been a long road. (Talk about PTSD.) A main reason our marriage survived is because DH’s toxic ingrates have always lived in another state. Still, like many of us here, I have tolerated behavior from these dysfunctional primates that I would never have tolerated from anyone else. I’m done. No, they haven’t “done” anything to me recently. It’s that I’ve finally acknowledged in the truest level of my being how incredibly damaged, toxic, and crazy these people are.
I don't know what to do for myself. SS is becoming unbearable to be around. As most of you know he is in travel baseball season which is requiring driving long hours and spending days out of town. He got to pitch one game and actually hit two times but they lost the game and he did not play again all weekend. I go so that I am with my SO . If I didn't go to the games I wouldn't be around my SO much during this time of year..
I just want to validate anyone on this board who might be experiencing PTSD from their shit SKiDS. I first had a therapist tell me they believed I had it 2 years ago and I thought it seemed too extreme until I realized that whenever my SKIDDs act out it reminds me of the worst experiences of when the awful oldest SD was still living at home and made my life a living hell. She did everything possible to try and drive a wedge between myself and my DH. Even at our wedding she had a scowl on her face which I caught in several pics.
First, the good news.
June 2. A big day for my family.
Today is mom and dad's 62nd anniversary. My niece and her DH blew the doors off the anniversary gift for mom and dad, the first GGK was born this AM. 8lb 9oz baby girl. How that came out of my tiny little size 2 niece is mind boggling. Anyway. Only the second baby girl in the Rags clan... ever. Her mama was the first. My heart is warmed that mom and dad have made it to 62 years of marriage healthily, happy, together, and that my niece and the baby are healthy.
A wonderful day for my family on many levels.
2 posts in one day ! lol well this technically is not a post about my SK but more my SIL. I have had a rocky relationship with my MiL and SIL but as of late, things have been pretty smooth. That was until today! A few weeks ago SIL asked me when we would be celebrating DD4 birthday. I told her that although DDs real birthday is June 21 we would celebrate that Saturday which is June 22nd most likely early . I know that her daughter ( DH niece) has a birthday close to Father's Day and DDs birthday but I don't know when her actual birthday is.
Hello all! It's been a while but all has been well over here! Therapy with DH and myself is going really good! Things with SD 14 has improved but she has not really been over since after Easter. One weekend she was sick and the next time she had a sports ball to attend but things have been good with SD and BM has been quiet. Except for today. SD was just over for her weekend and she has become enjoyable to be around, she plays well with her siblings now and starts conversations with me to my surprise! But of course BM has to text DH if he is gonna help her pay for an urgent care bill.
HAHA, no, not really. I loved that caption in Flash Gordon, but dont love that I am able to use it in my own story.
SDNow18 Princess Powersulk, turned 18 and then the following day went through the graduation ceremony. As Husband and I were toasting the end to child support going to BM, and the end of all the potential for drama, he let slip that Toxic Troll reminded him that he missed a payment a few months ago, and that she is expecting it this new month sometime.
I have been stalking this website for 2 years. Finally, I got to courage to open an account and try to find help with my troubled blended family. More specific, the stepson from hell. I worry everyday that the next fight about him will be the one that ends my marriage.
So allow me to introduce myself. First let me say I have really found solace in reading your experiences. I look forward to connecting with fellow suffering stepparents.
BM picked up SS12 today. She was wearing a sweatshirt that said "wifey" on it, almost like she is trying to remind us all that she is married to GF. She was decent to DD2 and told us that DD is talking a lot more, which is true. After 5 years of promising, BM still isn't taking SS to Canada after a pick-up. We live an hour from the border. But she is driving an hour in the opposite direction of home to take SS to her old college stomping grounds... again for the millionth time. I am starting to think Canada won't happen like many other promised things in SS' life.
So my SD's are 12 and 10... BM has been very absent from their lives the last 5 years and before that when they were in home with her they was left alone,exposed to drugs, lice, filth, etc.
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