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Hershei12's picture

Well, I suppose thats my new title. Last week after having had enough of SD 18 and her trash kept room I snapped. I took pictures and posted them to FB just saying that I would have killed to have had a room like that at her age and how embarrassed I am at how nasty she is. Of course, it was seen even though  she blocked me months ago. She was planning on moving out in August to go to school but after that she moved to her sisters house until August. My DH was livid of course at first but after a day he calmed down. Now on to most hated reason #2.

I've been telling DH for months that I wanted to turn SD's room into the guest room. Its on the front of the house and connects to a bathroom. It has a built in bookcase/desk, has a huge window and will be perfect for my art hobby. He never said a word otherwise. My mother who has Alzheimers also asked for the room but I explained to her what I wanted to do with it.  It took us ALL day Sunday to clean up her room. There were 8 bags of garbage removed. Under the bed were condom wrappers, dishes, trash and FOOD! I couldn't believe it. The carpet is ruined! After three passes with a rug shampooer it will never be like it was and will have to be removed if we sell the house.

 SS19 was out of town last week and came back Monday. He tells DH that he wants SD's room and DH tells him no, I'm turning it into a guest room. After SS going on and on he finally told him to talk to me (making me yet again be the bad guy). SS finally told DH that he was "taking that room." DH told him not to put a thing in it. I had already moved art supplies, pictures etc. So, yesterdasy SS gets four buddies to come over and moves his stuff into that room. I call DH and tell him to make SS put his stuff back. They get into a fight on the phone with SS telling DH that he was treated like "shit his entire senior year and he deserves that room." I couldn't belive it. This kid as had a truck for two years, doesn't have to pay a dime for anything and he says he has been treated like shit. I get home, and I told him I didn't understand what he thought he was doing but he needed to put all his stuff back in the room he had. He just kept repeating why can't I have it, why, why, why? Finally I said if you dont put your things back I will. He leaves wth his buddies. I start putting his stuff back in his old room.  He come homes at 2:30 this a.m. and sleeps in the new room.

DH just says that he is tired of all of us. He is at the end of his rope. His kids are telling him its them or me.  "Between us I dont understand why you don't let him have the room." Well, now its a matter of disrespect. He was told NO and he went and did it anyway. To me its like a 5 year old pitching a fit after being told no and the parent giving in and giving them what they want. I mean, am I wrong to feel like this? I am NOT letting him have that room now especially after he just took it after being told no. He is 19 and if he doesn't like living for free with the room he has he can leave. I don't care.

I don't know how much more I can take!

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Cover1W's picture

I would say this to your DH, and that's the end of your input, using most of your words...:

"Well, now its a matter of disrespect. He was told NO and he went and did it anyway. To me its like a 5 year old pitching a fit after being told no and the parent giving in and giving them what they want...I am NOT letting him have that room now especially after he just took it after being told no. He is 19 and if he doesn't like living for free with the room (add in the truck and rent-free living) he has he can leave. This is OUR home, not his."

I think I would leave if my DH ever did this to me.

Hershei12's picture

I did tell him all that and he agrees on the disrespect part but he is a peace maker and doesn't like confrontation but with me I am so over his horrible, disrespectful self entitled brat kids that I just don't care anymore. None of them (SD26, SS19 and SD18) wished him a Happy Father's Day. The girls have told him that if he doesn't leave me they won't have anything to do with him. SS19 has been a constant pain. He got caught smoking pot last year in school and was sent to alternative school where he wouldn't go every day and just laid in bed. He has gotten into physical altercations with DH telling him he would kill him and all kids of horrible cussing. He is nothing but a little punk THUG and yesterday DH even said to me "you ran DD off, now this." Well, the way I look at it is what exactly are you missing? They don't give a damn about him. SD was only coming home to get a change of clothes anyway. She was going to leave it just took place sooner. He says we all put him in the middle and none of us care about him at all. If he sides with SS I will be leaving!

hereiam's picture

Well, he doesn't seem to mind confrontation with you.

You ran his DD off? He should have made her keep her room clean. Clothes all over the place is one thing but food? Trash and condom wrappers? I don't have 8 bags of garbage in my entire house, including the garage and shed.

Your husband is not a peace maker, he's a doormat for his kids. He's perfectly fine with his son defying him, after he told him that he could not have that room.

And, I have news for him. Even if he left you, like they want, they still won't have the time of day for him unless they want something.

Exjuliemccoy's picture

And you can't run off somebody if there's a strong emotional bond and mutual respect. He's blaming you, when you're simply being forced to deal with the results of his sh!tty parenting.

Shut him down every. time. he tries to blame shift. "DH, if you'd parented your kids better we wouldn't be dealing with this drama now, would we?"

 I think at this point, I'd embrace being the witch and clean house. Boot the future inmate SS and tell your H that he can either have a low rent life doormatting for his maladjusted adult kids, or a peaceful high qualify life with you.

Leilene's picture

The stepson is clearly in the wrong and your husband should not be enabling his grown, adult son to think and act like an entitled, whiny, needy, demanding adolescent. The audacity to move his things into a room in a home where he doesn’t pay a bill? That’s grounds for being kicked out. If biological children would pull such a boldly disrespectful move under the roof of their own two parent’s home, many parents would kick them out. What he did was the ultimate smack in the face towards both of you. 

However, he could have been trying to stick it to you and been brashly starting an emotional war with you for publicly humiliating his baby sister. Nonetheless, your husband needs to be man enough to let his son know that he doesn’t run shit under his roof and if he’s going to have such an entitled, demanding attitude then he needs to find a home of his own. 

Siemprematahari's picture

I think the hill to die on passed long ago but this ROOM would certainly do it for me.

DHsfamilyfromhell's picture

I don’t think we should should criticise, it’s not very constructive for their family circumstances. As my dad would say it is what it is what’s done is done. What she is asking for possibly is a plan moving forward. I’m afraid I don’t have any useful advice on that one. And ultimatums from step kids who don’t know enough about life don’t sit well with me I am afraid.

ProbablyAlreadyInsane's picture

SS is a disrespectful s***. Honsetly i would hav etold him to put the stuff back in his room or it will be trashed.

tankh21's picture

What a self righteous POS! I would tell my skid that if he wants to rent the room then it's $800 a month. LOL Adult skids running amuck in your house thinking they can do whatever they want that is bullsh***! OP stand your ground because it is your house!

Cbarton12's picture

I assume that both you and DH pay the mortgage and the bills. 

As SS is living rent-free and it's not his damn house, he has NO RIGHT to throw a fit and demand to get the room. It's not his house and he's not contributing. 

It's your house and you have the right to designate what each room should be used for. 

And your DH needs to grow up. 

I agree you shouldn't have humiliated your SD in that way. But what's done is done. 

ESMOD's picture

It's a 50/50 from me on this. 

I get your frustration with SD.. but airing things on facebook (or any social media) is wrong and immature and so dang hard to walk back.  I understand you "snapped".. but I can think of other things you could have done that wouldn't have made you look as bad publicly.. and in fact.. in the end...it really reflected poorly on you.  But it's done.. and it is what it is.  In a vacuum.. one issue shouldn't be cause for permanent banishment.. but this is a big weapon in her arsenal against you.

The boy?  That is absolutely ridiculous.  If one of my SD's had the audacity to move into a room that they were specifically told they couldn't have?  He would have returned to his belongings in the driveway.

Hershei12's picture

Yes, he pays the majority of the bills but the house is in my name. I work and I contribute as well. We have three car notes (one is SS19) that I pay for totally out of what I make. I pay everyone's car insurance. These kids have been allowed to come and go as they please even during school. SD18 would leave and stay gone all weekend, come home make a mess and leave again. SS19 is the same way. They both picked the rooms they wanted we moved in and I'll add that I chose this house because it is in the neighborhood they grew up in. It is one street over from the house DH shared with Biomom. Everything was done to please them. They didn't appreciate nor resepct our home. When I locked the front door they cried to DH that I was locking them out on purpose. The front door stayed unlocked 24/7 so they could come and go as they please. I got security cameras and they cried to DH that I was monitoring them. It has been years of living hell for me.

Leilene's picture

Make sure you stop paying for those things if they initiate estrangement from their father. That’s money that could be going into your retirement fund. They are grown adults; they don’t need you to pay for those items, especially not with their ungrateful attitudes. They could flip burgers and earn enough to support those needs. 

notasm3's picture

I don’t  think there was a thing wrong with shaming the nasty bitch SD. If you don’t want to be shamed and humiliated don’t do shamefull trash things.  None of it was staged or a lie. 

Since you own the home I would evict that asshole ss as quickly as legally possible.  

 

 

Siemprematahari's picture

I don't know how you do it.....I'm reading this blog and I'm just amazed by the f@ckery of it all. The audacity of these step kids. The SS disregarding being told NO and still wanting to do what he wanted and moved his stuff in. Your H burying his head in the sand. SS is very fortunate because I'd be very tempted to do a "Waiting to Exhale" on his @ss. He would come home and see ALL his belongings lit on fire in front of the house, up in flames so he can have something to really hate you for. You have been pushed to the limit and choose to continue living this way.....Why? Do you see what happens when you place yourself last, do everything to appease others?.......they give you their @ss to kiss....Your H who doesn't have the back bone to hold his own is just as bad.

Goodness you have the tolerance level of a saint.

Hershei12's picture

I'm no saint. I may not have handled situations very well, I'll admit that. I can sit here and tell you how these skids have wronged me till doomsday. The bottom line is, the youngest 2 weren't speaking to their mother a year ago with SD saying she hated her. Well, that all changed in January when she got a new car. Stepdad had to buy a car for his daughter. His daugther wouldn't speak to him or take the car so they gave it to my SD! She got a car by default. The relationship now may be strained but from what I've seen with the skids as soon as they want something and DH gets it for them, all will be good. That to me is sad. I do feel bad that they blame him for what I did and are shutting him out right now but I also know that it won't last.

I won't make the same mistake again or be hurtful. But, I'm also not going to put up with a SS19 dictating what happens in my home. And as far as what I contribute financially, that shouldnt matter. I'm the adult here. He isn't!

Leilene's picture

Your life will probably be a much more happy place without your husband’s entitled, ungrateful, rude children lingering around and downgrading your household. Distance and difference are almost magical when you’ve got unsavory people around. You’re nearly 50 years old; you deserve some peace and harmony. 

Maybe this is the situation that will bring it. I think you should clean up your side of the street for future politics where those kids will paint you as the bad guy. But other than that, now may be a good time for you to distance yourselves from them. I still can’t believe your stepson has the audacity to do that 

tog redux's picture

Look, I get that these kids are rude and entitled. But they are that way because your DH made them that way, period. He's the one whose stuff you should be moving out and whose faults you should be criticizing on Facebook.

IMO, everyone is cheering you on, but you should have long ago given DH the ultimatum of either parenting his kids or leaving. Too many people on this board stay in their marriage and punish their skids for what is really their DH's fault.

I don't know how any marriage can survive this - of course DH is angry at you. You did run his daughter off and are now pushing his son out.  Do they need to get out? Yes, absolutely.  But that's not the way to do it, IMO.  Now I suppose that when they refuse to speak to you or DH, you will blame them for being entitled and rude rather than seeing your own contribution to the problem.

Hershei12's picture

Do I have to say that I know what I did was wrong? And yes, I blame DH. I have been with him for 12 years. Married for 3 and I've seen these kids at 6 and 7 be parented by a Disney Dad. At times and I've told DH this I wish that I wold have waited until they were grown and gone before we married. We have never agreed on discipline or really anything when it comes to his children.

I didn't post this to get "cheerd on." I thought that the whole point of this site was to come and vent and maybe read and be able to feel not alone and relatable to others issues with their skids but damn, was I wrong. Now I'm being shamed and critisized for something I openly admited was a mistake. I don't come here daily to bitch and moan beause I feel like if I keep talking about all the bad stuff it won't help the situation. Today I made the mistake of venting on here obviously.

Maybe my marriage won't survive this. Maybe DH and SS should move out and leave me all alone in my bitchiness and anger and horridness, selftentitlement and immaturity. Maybe that would be the best for everyone!

 

tog redux's picture

Look - you aren't the problem here, but you aren't NOT the problem here - it's a family problem.  But how have you stayed 12 years with this wimpy man who won't support you and won't parent his kids?  You may not be posting about it here daily, but you have been living it daily for a long effing time.

I see that you owned the problem, and I know you weren't looking to get cheered on, I was reacting to everyone saying what you did was just fine.

Go to DH and let him know that you are at the end of your rope and either changes are made or you are leaving. Then you will find out who he values more.

ESMOD's picture

You really only need to say that "you were wrong" to the right person once.  That is your SD.  She is the one you crossed the line with.  A 2nd smaller mea culpa to your DH for ramping up a situation.

"SD, I'm sorry I posted those pictures on Facebook, It was wrong.  I was frustrated about the state of the room and didn't choose the best way to express that."

 

You don't owe your SS an apology.. he owes you one.

 

Siemprematahari's picture

OP admitted the social media move was not her best moment. She acknowledges that she was wrong and has had other not so great moments. She has been down this toxic path because of all the BS her H is not handling. She's desperate and frustrated and doesn't have her H's support. It's up to HER now to take her power back and do something about it because her H is incapable. The whole family situation has gone to shit and she needs to save her sanity, or what's left of it. I think its a combination of a whole lot of toxicity that has led to where she is now. Everyone has their share of blame in this but the question is what is she going to do about it?

How is she going to change her life, her situation so she can live her best and healthy life?

tog redux's picture

Yes, that's everyone's justification on here for being hostile and rude to their stepkids and then blaming them. "I had to take charge."  The way to take power back is to let DH know that changes will be made with the kids, or she will be making her own changes in her own life.

There is someone on here who told her DH that she was buying a new house, and he could move with her alone or stay with his kids and lo and behold, he moved with her and kicked the kids out.  That's how you take charge. You can only change yourself, and doing things this way isn't going to save your marriage or your sanity.  It's going to drive MORE wedges in between people.

Leilene's picture

Should she have allowed a wonderfully unique room to go to waste and be treated like a trash dump by her adult stepchild who’s going away for college? Do you truly believe she should have just passively missed out on the opportunity to do something special and nice with a room in a home she pays for to appease a grown adult that she didn’t even make with her own womb? 

Thats completely unreasonable even for a biological mother. Even within a biological family, it’s pefectly natural and normal for the parents to want to do something with the child’s room once they move out. And it would be insanely outrageous for the child to stand in the way of that vision for their own selfish, lazy, entitled desires. She shouldn’t have had to remain miserable, uncomfortable, and frustrated in her own home to appease her adult stepdaughter. There is a difference between being controlling and asserting your right to decide how your life goes in a home you pay for. 

Leilene's picture

Sweetie, you need to find better hobbies than endlessly trying to debate with strangers online especially if you’re going to “debate” by sounding like a broken record and reiterating the same exact talking point non-stop. 

Stepparent or not; you’re wrong on that one and it would behoove you to spend your limited time alive with a greater purpose than tirelessly insisting the OP is a power hungry control freak for simply not living life the way you do. 

Harry's picture

Its your home.  SS is 19.  You pay the bills.  SS stays in his old room or he can move out. He’s 19 he can get a room of his  own and pay the rent on it.  It was totally disrespectful for SS to move his stuff in after being told not to.  You can not let him get away with this or you can roll over and become a rug to be walked on. 

This is a hill to died on.  I would not be disrespected in my own home what I am paying for.  Cut off all money to SS cancled his insurance and any thing else you are paying for.  Your DH does not have your back. He’s backing his DS.

SD was told to keep her room clean,  He not cleaning her room was also disrespectful.  We see a pattern here.  You must hold your ground at all cost 

NoWireCoatHangarsEVER's picture

living in my home from September to February 1st.  My home is my sanctuary.  I work very hard in it and for it.  As I'm sure you do in and for yours.  I let her stay in my daughter's beautiful room and she completely ruined it.  She brought in her dogs and I do had to spend DAYS cleaning up dog crap, shoveling (I literally got a shovel from the shed) to get the garbage out and the flooring because dog urine had soaked through to the underlayment.  I had to buy a brand new mattress.  And to this day there is a roach problem back there that no amount of pest control and Advion can get rid of it.  I eventually had to pay $1500 to get her out.  I couldn't live that way anymore.  The smell was horrible.  It had long creeped down the hall from the room to my living quarters.  Now that I'm out of the situation, I look back and how depressed I was having to live that way.  I had to pay $1500 to get her into an apartment that she got evicted from May 1st.  That's what I did to escape.  You had to go on social media to shame her to escape.  I don't blame you.  I don't think you are a bad person.  If you hadn't, you'd still be living that way.  Your husband wasnt going to ever stand up and make her clean it up.  It isn't right to force someone to live that way in such filth and disgust.  I understand cause that was me earlier in the year.  Until they've had someone trash their home with garbage and roaches and urine and dog crap, they'll never understand what its like and what you'll do to escape. 

Kes's picture

I probably wouldn't have posted the pictures on Facebook, but in all other respects I don't think that Hershei went far enough in dealing with this gross disrespect of the living environment of her home.  If the SKIDs had behaved thus, in my house, they would both definitely be shown the door, both being legal adults and capable of making their own living arrangements.  I left home at 17 and never trashed any room I stayed in.   SS19 was completely out of order and I would not want him anywhere near me any more.  He can find his own rented room and good luck to him. 

EvilStepMom1977's picture

Your SS's behavior is outrageous and unacceptable.  It's equality outrageous that your husband won't put his foot down.  

He should be kicked out of the house.

I don't think it's that big of a deal that you posted the pictures online. It sounds like she trashed the room and ruined the carpet. What she did was worse than what you did.