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I was told,  "I married you so you could help me with my child!", I answered, "then you married me for the wrong reason! And I didnt marry you to help you with your child, he has a mother!", He rephrased, "I married you for a lot of reasons and getting help with my child was part of them",...... One day he says, "I'm getting tired of doing this and that for the child when i have a wife", I answered "You should be saying, I'm getting tired of doing this and that for the child, when the mother is there! Wife has her own responsibilities to handle and they are more than enough she doesn't need extra load". In my mind Im thinking this man is crazy, if he, the bio parent responsible for bringing the child to earth by failing to condomise, he the bio parent who is legally responsible for the child is fed up of doing some simple chores for his son then why would he expect me to be okay with it! ME, who did not ask for the child to be born and Im not even related to him one bit?

DH has nothing to do when he gets home after work but he still complains about ironing his son's uniforms.. just one trouser and shirt twice a week for that matter!!! He is so incosiderate and thinks of me as a robot that never gets tired and a woman is super human! Who does'nt need help or at least cutting some of her load by having the child help out or at least do his own personal things! No! I have to do everything, for everyone! They can go and bath in the shower and leave the bathroom floor splattered with water and the super human must not complain when extra work is created for her, because she is programmed to clean up after everyone. I have to spend 2 hours on my feet cooking and washing dishes after having spent the day doing other house chores and let's not forget nursing the baby, rocking him to sleep every hour or 2, feeding him, bathing him, changing diapers and entertaining him. Let's not forget myself, i have to bath and eat and SS has to be cooked for in the afternoon when he gets home after school because he doesnt like snacks like sanguage, crisps etc. I have to do what he likes even if it gives me extra work and its an inconvenience.

One morning he asks me what SS ate before leaving for school and i replied "I dont know". That reply made me an uncaring, wicked step mom. A mole hole turned into a huge mountain! "You have to pepare something for the child to eat in the morning, this boy is your responsibility, don't treat him any different from BS, If it was BS would you have given me the same answer that you dont know what he ate?" That's when i lost my cool, how dare he bring my innocent BS into the conversation!!. By then BS was 3 months old and waking up to breast feed in the middle of the night and I would have gone to bed tired from being on my feet cooking supper and washing the dishes without any help from DH or  SS (10) I would cook and serve them like a maid while they watched TV. After all this he then expected me to wake up at 6 in the morning to make cereal for a 10 year old boy who is neither blind nor crippled! Why? Because I am a robot I don't need the sleep or SS is a royal prince who is not supposed to do anything for himself and I his maid should wake up and do it for him?

Here is what I told him:

1. I am not a robot, I get tired!! I am a first time mother, first time wife, first time step mother, first time DIL all at once its a big adjustment especially to my responsibilities,  i moved from being responsible for only me, myself and I to being responsible for 4 people, laundry has more than trippled and being a mom to a baby is hard work, I wake up in the middle of the night every hour or 2 to nurse our baby so don't expect me to wake up at 6am to make cereal for a 10 year old capable of making it himself. Its not rocket science!! If you don't want him making it himself then wake up yourself to do it.

2: Dont you ever bring BS into this or compare him to SS, I am taking full responsibility of my child and I have never bothered anyone with doing chores or anything for him. BS is my responsibility whether i like it or not, whether I am with you or not. I chose to get pregnant and i chose to carry the pregnancy full term, some women chose to abort! So I brought him to earth and I will therefore take full responsibility for him as long as I live and I am HIS MOTHER the only mother he knows. We are related and have the same family forever (My mom, sisters and aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are his family and he will always acknowledge and respect them, unlike SS who shows no respect to my young sister whenever she comes to visit, because he knows she is not his relative. A disciplined child knows to respect adults whether related or not. SS just lacks manners and discipline)

3: SS is ONLY in my life because I am with you, the minute we decide to divorce he stops being in my life, but BS will forever be in my life whether we stay together or not. SS actually has a mother, the person who is rightfully responsible for him. If you feel i am not doing right by him then do it yourself or take him to his mother.

4: SS IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE MY RESPONSIBILITY!!! I did not ask to have him in my life, i did not ask for him to be born, truth can be bitter but truth is I am not related to this child one bit, I can not even be held responsible for my own nephews and nieces whom im related to, what more a child Im not related to!! I was not there when you and BM decided to fuck each other without using protection which resulted in the birth of SS, so why am i being bothered? 

5: SS is your responsibility with BM and NO ONE ELSE's not your mom or relatives but just the two of you, just as it was the two of you who decided to do the act that led to his birth. I can only help you with SS (your responsibility) and It is not a force matter or obligation. i will only be doing you and SS a favour! If you tell yourself that SS is my responsibility then you are making a huge mistake, you are very mistaken. You will not appreciate what I do for him because you think its my responsibility, so you will take everything i do for him for granted and forget to THANK ME. The BM is running away from her responsibilities towards her ONLY child,then I who has my BS to care for, should embrace the extra responsibilities and inconveninces?

MISTAKES BM / BD's DO

They dont know that it is not easy caring for your own bio child, if they burden and inconvinience and force us with the extra responsibility (That is not rightfully ours) of caring for their children, and then take it for granted and not show any appreciation (because they think they are our responsibilities) step parents are likely to end up resenting those children and the bio parents as well. By marrying them, we are not signing up for extra burdens and being accused of being uncaring or not doing enough for their children. I would rather be given grief over children i brot to earth coz they are my legal responsibility and NOT children i didn ask to be born, who actually have a mother, the right person to be grieved. They can't be made to affect my life like that otherwise i will end up hating them! BM's and BD's Please relieve your spouses by handling your spawns and disciplining them as well, not to leave it all to the unrelated partner! If you do that then the Step parent will have less headaches. Acknowledge and appreciate that your spouse is taking on your Ex's job and it aint easy or fun!!! Buy a gift just to say Thank you not to complain about this and that. Children from 8 years are old enough to be given house chores , be it taking out trash, towelling dishes etc just to be useful and lessen our work load not to just sit and have evrything done for them as if they are crippled or royalty!! No one can love a spoilt useless s kid.

Thank you