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I don't want to make 'family' programs together anymore. Need advice please.

Jerseymommy's picture

Hi, I'm new to the forum, and posted before, just don't see my blog anywhere.
Please be patiente, its a little long.
I have two boys, 15 and 2, the big boy is from the previous marriage.
My husband have a 13 year old boy from previous relationship.
We live together for nine years, his son lives with bio mom, visiting us every second weekend, spring break, summer vacation one week, july 4th week, Thanksgiving, Chrismas etc. plus my husband visiting him once a week.
He is having some social and mental disabilities, low IQ, ADHD, and sensory issues.
Also have a tendency to touch people inapropietly, and pretend that was an accident.
When our kids was smaller, I was able to deal with him. He was always anoying, and everything was about him when he came, my husband feels very guilty of leaving him, so when he was over, he made sure that he is happy, felt loved, and well fed.
On the weekend he is with us, my husband is all stressed, but denies it.
Since our two year old was born, my stepson started to have a bad attitude towards me.
Also very weird with the baby. Any time I turned away, he jumped to him, squeezed hands, or pushed his head to the babies head, and told him no no no no no no.... in a monoton voice.
He told me on a summer vacation last year that I supposed to put the little one's head under water.
He also said that the baby loves my husband more than me, so I should leave the baby with them, and go run errands.
He is looking for the opportunity to be with him alone, and that's freaks me out.
My husband thinks that I'm over reacting, and treating his son like he would want to murder his little brother.
The problem is that he loves to play with little kids, but too young ones, and he like to controll them, tickle them, and also touch them innaproprietly. The last time at a friend's house he told a four year old girl to touch the 'button' on his pants. He was laying on his back and put the girl on the top of him.
My son caught him searching porn, gay porn, lesbian porn, and such a perverted ideas, that I never would expect such a thing from a 13 year old! We was all shocked, my husband cried a little, but next day he said that probably he was just curoius, and hi is not a pervert.
We had a talk with him, we told him that if he have questions about sex related stuffs, feel free to ask us, but the internet can be harmful for his young brain.
He promised it will never happens again.
Few weeks later we checked in his searches, (there is a softwear blocking the underage stuffs, so he can't actualy see it) and of course again he was searching for the dirthiest things.

I got so tired of him, and constant lying, politeness when his dad is here and rude when he don't hear him.
I'm tired of watch if he touches my toddler. ( he like to touch his hand 30 times a day, with the excuse of high fives. )
So I told my husband that from now on I will try to do other things when he is coming. Taking to the little one to the park, etc.
But my husband got very upset about it, and told me, I can't separate the family, and why would I refuse his son like that.
It seems that he is so mad, that he almost hates me for what I said.
It's too much if I try to reduce the time I spend with step son?
This is causing me sleepless nights, and palpitations two days before he is coming.
( after the baby was born I got pulmonary embolism, almost died, and took so long to recover. I wish i could focus on my health and raising kids, not on stepson.)
I would appriciate any advice!
Thank you!

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bearcub25's picture

I agree with keekee. Your gut tells you that something isn't right.

My SS when he was 15-17 basically sexually harassed me. DSO never believed me when I told him how the boy would stare at me or stand in a doorway and when I would walk down the hall, he would come the other way with his arms out wide and try to rub against me. I hugged the wall so tight, I rubbed paint chips off of it LOL.

I told DSO that his son scared me and that I refused to be in the house alone with him. Luckily, when SS wanted to live with his Mom, DSO didn't fight it b/c I couldn't take it anymore.

Jerseymommy's picture

I didn't saw my post, so I also posted on the 'Blended Family' forum.
Anyway, I told him once, that if his son touches my toddler, I will thave to call the police, and he will hate me for that.
That's what I want to prevent with staying away from him.
But my husband needs to get over of the 'everybody have to be together' thing.
Counselling might be a good idea, if he can hear it from someone else too.

Jerseymommy's picture

@bearcub25
Ew! This one doing similar things.
Lucky you that he left! My stepson loves to be with us, calling every day, and clinging to his dad.
I don't think that he will leave on his own.

Jerseymommy's picture

I never leaved the little one alone when stepson was around, even my husband say that he is not stupid, he won't let anyone hurt his baby, and I should not act like his son want to rape him.
Anyway, I have no intention to ever let him be close to him. This is raise a question. If I would leave with my kids, how can I be sure that my husband don't put our toddler to play with his son together, when I'm not there?
That would prevent me from ever leaving!

Cocoa's picture

your number one responsibility is seeing to your child's safety. if his own father won't listen to you, don't be afraid to sound the alarms. shine a flashlight on this! NEVER leave your child alone with him, and since it's getting to be too much for you, ss should not be in the same house. your dh can just get over it. he's LUCKY you haven't left yet. lay the law down woman. he can see ss out of the home and will not be allowed back in until he gets whatever help he needs. at the very least you and your dh need counseling (a counselor will tell him how it is straight up). like the poster above said, you are protecting not only your son, but ss. and if your dh is still upset about the whole happy family bit, he can kick rocks. show him these posts.

Jerseymommy's picture

@outtahere
Yes, first they said that he is on the autism spectrum, but very mild, not rocking himself, verbal, and able to do many things others on the spectrum can't.

Jerseymommy's picture

I will protect my son, even if it's causing my husband to be upset about me not being around when stepson is over.
But in case if things escalate, and I would leave with my kids, divorce etc, he would be able to get visitation of the little one, and have his 13 year old over in the same time. Probably he would let them play together if I'm not there. So how can I control that?

furkidsforme's picture

If you think its "ODD" for a 13 year old boy to be seeking porn on the internet you are very naive. And looking at gay porn is, in this century, not really considered "dirty". It just happens to be porn between people of the same sex. Maybe your SS is just an equal opportunity perve.

Jerseymommy's picture

@furkidsforme
I do think that there is a normal sexual interest in teenage boys, but he is searched for hardcore things, detailed perversions you expect from a 45 year old psycho, not from a kid his age.

PeanutandSons's picture

I would start laying the ground work now. Mention your concerns to your sons pediatrician..mention it to ss's therapist if he has one.....if hebdoesnt get him one...mention it to ss's pediatrician....mention it to the daycare if you take them to one. Get it on record somewhere in case you need proof that your son can't have visitation with SS.

Jerseymommy's picture

@ outtahere, that's the thing, I can't leave until I can't make sure that my husband cannot just pick up both of his kids for a same time visitation. We do have internet security set up, but we still see in the search window what he is searching for. He is still trying, even we told him that is blocked.

Jerseymommy's picture

@outtahere, here you can't take kids for this kind of evaluations without both parens permission. His bio mom wouls never sign anything like that.
@peanutandson , I will have to start to work on that. Thank you for the input.