Anyway, together ever since, married 6 yrs. He has a daughter from his toxic first marriage right out of high school. He finally got custody of her when she was about 10 and I've known her since she was 5. Of course I've tried to win her over, perhaps I tried too hard.
Anyway long story short, we moved her with us out of state when she about 17ish. Normally we would have never done such a thing, but she was failing high school, and then she was failing at the vocational school. It was always someone else's fault, and her daddy always fought her battles. We did all we could to get her a high school diploma and she did. But she hated it here with us away from her friends, and I understood. But we had to come where our jobs took us so we could buy a house, our first house together, and obtain health insurance.
Our hometown in the Midwest is dying, no jobs and a heroin epidemic on top of that.
She just up and took off one day, without a goodbye to either of us. I was sad because it broke his heart, because she took off when he was out of town working. On the other hand, I have to admit I was relieved. She was lazy, dirty, rude, you name it. I understand she wasn't happy but we did all we could for her.
After she left it was great, I had just me and my animals, I could study in peace and go about my routine. That lasted about 6 mos, and then I hear she's pregnant. It wasn't long after that I hear the baby's daddy was worthless, blah blah, same old story. He wouldn't work and they were going to get evicted. Everyone else there had helped her as much as they could muster. Mamaw and papaw were paying her rent, bought her a car, etc. They weren't going to do anymore.
We talked about letting her stay here until she got on her feet. That was all fine at first but 2 mos into it and today, my last nerve was hit. I've heard baby crying when I'm studying, sleeping, etc. (We live in a small house and I can't escape it) my hubby is working out of town again so I'm the one who lives this during the week. Today I stepped out of the office and said Hey! to her in the kitchen because I wanted to see if she wanted to work out with me, and then she reprimanded me like a child and told me the baby was sleeping. Something just hit the fan inside of me, I took the dog around the house and cried. I thought, I am paying a $1200 mortgage to step on eggshells in my own home, around someone else's baby. How did I get myself in this situation??