I am a stepmother. My husband raised his daughter on his own since the child was an infant. Mother's Day is difficult for more reasons than one. We moved to a new state after my husband's retirement. Daughter is in college and comes "home" for breaks. She comes in and she leaves to visit her mother. Then she comes back and leaves to go back to school. She stays with us over the summer. She complains about being bored and she implies that she needs services rendered by dropping hints like... I need a haircut, I need new clothes, and so on and so forth. My study where I read and unwind turned into her storage area when she runs out of room in her room. She goes through my drawers and cabinets to find "stuff." She took my makeup and claimed that it was purchased by her mother and that I took it from her. When I bought her gift, she loses them. She goes through my stuff in my study and goes not even have the intelligence of putting them back properly. The worst part? My husband defends her every single time if I complained about her behavior. Somehow, I was labelled as stressed out all the time over little things. I guess it just matters very little what my sense of security in this house mean. The biological mom is treated like gold by her. I, on the other hand, is an after thought. It's getting harder and harder to cope with the situation and my marriage is hanging by a thread.