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25 YEAR OLD SD ACTS LIKE A CHILD HELP!

pricexxo's picture

Hello, I know this site is used for SP to discuss and help out but I need help. I'm 19 and my mom is with her high boyfriend. I was 15 when they got together again. My father is an acholoic and my mother stayed with him for 23 years she finally gave the fight and met back up with the man I call my SD, again in 2009. When they first got together I didn't care for him to much, because he also drank. I was 15 living all my self for a summer no one but me and my moms Pomeranian she was always with him. Then after only two times of meeting him we moved in with him. Everything was all fine and dandy until the day I met his daughter. At first she did seem like a really cool person to hang out with. Me myself I have a brother and a sister but my sister is from my dads first marriage so she only came around at times. She wants more to do with my brother anyway. So I saw an opportunity to possibly have a big sister figure, when I first saw her she was pregnant she lost that baby then soon enough pregnant again. Her BM died during her pregnancy, her boyfriend kicked out and she came to stay with my mom and her dad. I being 16 at the time thought it was cool, until she started making comments someone was outside to kill her. As time went on she went back to her boyfriend these 'fights' became more and more every time they would let her come stay. When I first met her I immediately found out she was a huge liar. When her daughter was born she then 'left' her boyfriend and used her mothers death as an excuse not to do anything. Everyone I've talked to has said she treated her BM like dirt. It wasn't long before it got worse still 16 I raised her daughter fell outta school, and eventually quit. When I turned 18 she got pregnant again by the same guy in and out of his life back and forth from place to place she began to use her daughter as a tool to get things. Things such as if you don't take me there you can't see her ever again and I have a kid so you need to do this for me. After she had her son it only got worse. There came a time she abanded him for two months leaving my mom and her dad to take care of him. Her and her boyfriend split the kids the girl is his because he doesn't believe the boy is his. Lately the using the kids has gotten worse. So much as if she doesn't get a cigarette off her dad he isn't allowed to see the kids. Recently she has showed her true colors about my mom calling her valguer things. It's not the fact she just dislikes my mom she does it with everyone. After everyone fights with her and she sucks up everything is fine again everyone like worships her. Its now to the point me and my brother both agreed that since this isn't the first time she has dogged my mom out, and my mom doesn't stick to her guns about it me and my older brother are about ready to walk away from all this. Leave my mom behind we never would want my mom to choose over me and him vs our SD we just want her to choose between being treated like your nothing vs standing your ground. My mom is so focused in her drama that she doesn't notice me and my brother. I understand we are adults but it's been like this since I was 16. I just Idk what to do anymore. This isn't the life I planned for myself. I'm 19 and I'm the most mature, open minded, positive, adult here. I NEED HELP PLEASE! WHAT DO I DO? DO I LEAVE? every time I talk to my mom about it she tells me she's gonna walk away from everything including me and my brother. She gets loud... I just want her to see my point of view on it.. I have no one else to talk to. No one i repeat no one at all understands. I just want it to be over... So help! tell me should I leave never look back and start my life? my dreams? or should I stay here deal with this and be miserable where i'm so different and I don't fit in?? :O

floridaashes's picture

It sounds like the people in your life have a very negative affect on you. If you have a way out, I would get out a.s.a.p. None of these people are looking out for you, nor are they your responsibility. If you have a friend or someone you could stay with till you get on your feet, I would do so. Get your GED if you haven't already done so, and do everything you can to build yourself a better life situation void of this toxicity.

20YearsAsAStep-Mom's picture

I agree with florida.... it sounds very unhealty for you. Get indpendent as soon as you can and don't look back.

Rags's picture

You and your brother need to get out, launch your own adult lives and leave this toxic drama and blended family idiocy behind you.

However, there is no need to abandon your relationship with your mom.

Though not nearly as toxic as the situation you describe, my wife has struggled with a lot of drama in her family. With her parents and with her two younger brothers and younger sistter. My wife is the oldest of 4 and the only one who has made a life for herself and been successful without constant drama and repeated bad personal and financial decisions. We have learned over the years to visit her family, enjoy our time with them, love them as family but not to be drawn in to their toxic drama. It is not easy on my wife, she struggles with the sitautions that her parents and sibs repeatedly struggle with.

We do not isolate ourselves from my wife's family. We visit periodically, provide financial advice, enjoy our time with our neices and nephew then we get back to our normal life. When we are in our normal life it is pretty much drama free. What we do not do is enable their drama, throw our good money in to their never ending black hole of bad financial decisions, participate in their dillusions that their financial failures are someone elses fault, or let them off of the hook for being at the cause of their problems.

You gave up your high school years to care for your SS's child while she did nothing to help herself or her children. You can not help anyone if you do not first help yourself by becoming a viable adult. My wife was a single teen mom and was on welfare when we met. She struggled to overcome the poor decisions of her teens and completed college, grad school and is now a CPA. If she can do it, so can you. As you make the effort you will meet people who you can trust, who are making a journey to improve themselves much like you will do and those friendships will become your foundation and defense against your families toxic influence.

Move out, go to school, be successful and call your mom regularly. If she needs a quiet sane place to visit let her visit you for a few days every once in a while but do not jeopardize your life for her or anyone else.

Good luck young lady.

Sincerely,