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Laughing to myself thinking about DH having to watch all these awful movies with SD

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Submitted by zerostepdrama on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 1:10pm

DH's "visitation" with YSD15 is usually taking her to the movies. She no longer visits in the house. (Long story, if you dont know it, ask me and I will go into details).

The "visits/parenting" usually starts with DH proclaiming "I need to take my daughter to a movie." Which I find quite funny since he "needs" to do it as opposed to wanting to do it. I feel that DH is an "obligated dad". He does everything out of obligation.

Or YSD will text DH "want to see a movie" Which is just as laughable because to me she is asking him something as if they are friends and she is going to be paying her own way.

I dont care what DH does with YSD. The good person in me, wishes he would step up and be a real parent to her and do real parent things. But not my circus, not my monkey.

Recently I came across some of the movie stubs that DH saves from their movie dates.

Knowing DH... OMG he must be dying. Every movie is the corny, cheesy movie that you would think a 15 year old girl would pick to watch.

I kind of giggled inside knowing that DH had to sit through some shitty movie for 2 hours.

Its sad though that is how they spend their time together. 2 hours. In silence.

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Submitted by zerostepdrama on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 1:22pm

Okay I dont think they are all awful movies but for my DH who likes action movies....

The ones I can think of:

The Purge 2 (DH did tell me that this movie was STUPID-his opinion, I actually will watch it when it comes out on DVD)

The Fault in Our Stars

Annabelle

The Hobbit- Desolation of Smaug (DH told me about this one and said it was REALLY long and he was tired and needed a smoke)

Muppets

Think any teen movie, cheesy love story movie or cheesy scary movie and they have seen it.

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Submitted by hereiam on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 1:23pm

Ah, quality time.

Maybe I'll put a movie on the next time SD23 comes over. We sit in silence for 2 hours in my living room when she visits because she has no personality and nothing to say. Luckily, she does not visit often.

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Submitted by Evil stepmonster on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 1:30pm

My DH has had to sit through several barbie movies in one night. lol he is always pissy on those nights, but I've told him that's what he gets for letting a 6 year old make his decisions for him.

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Submitted by wickedwitch70 on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 11:30pm

This was my DH's choice of "visitations" with his kid back before junior came to live here full time. I figured he chose the movies because it required very little interaction and he'd feel like he did something with the kid. Now he lives here full time (BM is in prison) and he does absolutely nothing with him. There are some days the only words he says to him is when he yells upstairs that dinners ready. He's almost 15 now and he just runs his own life. Goes out and smokes his weed or mostly hibernates in his room. I call my DH "Guilt Dad". He only brought him here to live because he felt obligated and didn't want to look like a deadbeat dad to his family (plus he wanted to put an end to all that child support). I'd probably feel sorry for him if I actually liked him.