I'm looking for anyone who can help me figure out why, I started to really dislike my stepson. so let me start off by saying he's 6 now he was 4 when I met him I've been with his mom for 2 yrs, and we moved in together after I think 2 months, which probably wasn't smart on my part. But after we moved in together things started out good, and as time went on stuff between me and my wife and him took a bad turn. I've been the only dad he's ever known,his real dad took off when he was 6 months and hasn't seen him since. After awhile he started acting out a lot when it came to him being alone with me while his mom went to work on some weekends that I didn't. I mean I did a lot with him taught him to ride a bike cause he didn't know how, watched movies with him took him outside to play football father son stuff. We had a lot of fun together. But some of the things he's done to me since I've been in his life make me so angry and I've distanced myself from him quite a bit to protect myself because of things he's said. three times he's told some crazy lies because he wanted his mom and only his mom. Like when we first moved in after awhile he would get upset cause his mom had to work and he didn't want to stay with me so he told her that I hurt him, and beat him which he later admitted was a lie cause he didn't want his mom to go to work. she sat him down and told him those kind of lies really can hurt people and he needed to apologize for what he said. And another occasion I had to pick him up from school after my wife told me she couldnt make it in time to get him. well I did as soon as he saw me he started crying and I thought you he hurt himself or something but he told his teacher that I hurt him and hit his head. Well my wife called me the next day and told me the school sat down and talked to her about what he had said, and of course I got upset like really are you serious. well they talked to him in front of her when they asked him all kinds of questions and he eventually said that I never did those things to him, so why lie about it well he said he was upset his mom didn't pick him up I did. And of course the third time CPS got involved which should have been the last straw for me but I stayed. And of course CPS talked to him alone me and my wife didnt know they had been called but they talked to him about the beatings and throwing him from his room to the living room and all that crap that he was saying and once again he admitted he was a liar. And he has some bad habits of walking into the bathroom and just staring and looking at people using the bathroom hell he even opened the closed bathroom door knowing I was in there and just was staring at my crotch and im like little boy the door was closed for a reason what I'm doing in here is none of your business. He plays with his penis quite a bit I've caught him multiple times he's even rubbed the damn thing on a shelf in the store and i got called out by a mom who saw him my mom has caught him doing it in front of the foster kids she has at her house and he sticks his fingers inside of his butt and sits there line he enjoys it. He can't follow a simple instruction like go clean your room pick up toys and books or go take a bath. I mean maybe it has something to do with the fact he had no sort of structure or rules when he was living in a house with his mom grandma and great grandma he was allowed to do what ever and when ever. But I dont know he can be a good kid dont get me wrong but he gotten to where I dont even want to be around him cause I don't feel comfortable around him mainly cause of the lying he's done on me and i do a lot for this kid I mean a lot maybe I just expect too much i dont know but my feelings for this kid are somewhere between love and hate but more towards hate I love him but i hate the way he acts and the bull has put me through and all I tried to do is be a dad to him.