My husband is irritating the crap out of me today. He tells his daughter that we'll watch her son last night, through the night, and still going on right now. That's all fine and well -- but he expects me to do the "work" and take care of this child. I do enjoy having him over, but I feel like he is my DH's responsibility if he wants to have him over.

If anybody knows me, they know my story. 4 skids (SD18, SS20, SS23, SD24) -- it just never gets better. Thankfully they have all moved out of the house, but I still have to deal with them periodically because of weddings, baby, birthdays, etc. I already posted tonight that my SD18 wants to come for a visit, and I told DH no -- I do not want her here, at all.

i need to know if step families ever get 'good'. Like do the step children ever accept the step mother and step father, and things get to a normal place where you can have a fairly normal life? I am six years into this, and I feel like I'm living a nightmare and all I can think most days is that I want out.

I have had it with feeling like crap, being treated like crap, being depressed, having anxiety, being sick, being angry, etc. I'm done. I'm tired of being emotionally abused on literally a daily basis, and when I'm not being emotionally abused I am remembering all the crap they have done. I go grocery shopping only to be pissed off by the time I'm done because when I get home I know all they're going to do is complain about the food I buy. I buy healthy food, they want to eat crappy unhealthy stuff that makes you fat -- so needless to say I hear about it non-stop.