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UPDATE: almost a year later :)

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Hi all!! I've missed popping in here to catch up, vent and take notes. I re-read my last blog post (almost a year ago) and figured out that I was doing OK on my own so to speak. But I missed being able to offer any nuggets of tolerance I could share with my fellow stepdragons. Wow, such an ugly nickname I gave myself, but apparently exBF probably sees it as a fitting one. Too bad for him I have left that life behind and it started when my kids and I moved away from him and his. New BF is not perfect (is there such a thing?) but he surely is a keeper.

I'm back!! :)

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Hey ya'll!! LOL after being on here randomly off and on the past year and a half whining and complaining about my situation I have finally fixed it. I clung to the hope that the ostrich would see that being focused a thousand percent on his kids and leaving me standing there wondering what on earth would make him see he was just pushing me further and further away. It is sad to say behind his back so to speak I began looking for someone who would value time with me and not make me feel like such a mom and slave master all of the time.

Am I odd one out or are there others out there???

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I hold myself in contempt by the grace of the nickname I rendered myself to bf over skids: STEPDRAGON!!! He has said I need to quit that, but why? We do NOT see eye to eye on what should be considered unruly, lazy or even unkempt behaviors. Now, here is the other thing that makes me feel bad about being a BM in the midst of of all you steps---I have/had little to no interaction with their mom (skids) or even kids' dad since mine and bf's relationship started.

Yay--I want to jump in the fray (the blogging one that is) SOOOOO LONG

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I feel my participation on this site is what some fear--one of the lurkers. But here's food for thought: it's not my place to judge or be judged for why I'm here or why anyone is here for that matter. I heard the "get out-it's not going to get better". Until I was more financially stable I couldn't-where I live is a rural community and there aren't a lot of options for help here. I would probably be one of those bm's some of you gripe about without knowing my circumstances.

Just mad

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OK now I just plain mad, no livid. VENTING here bfore I just rip somebody's everloving head clean off!!! Breathe,1,2,3 screw it that's far enouhg. I turn the big 40 tomorrow-yay I survived this long-woohoo. My sister and mothr are up to something for my birthday this weekend-go girls!! In the mean time, my daughter won tickets for me to a comedy show. The reservations were originally for tonite but with bf's schedule I didn't even ask him to go (tired of the rejection-my hours, don't feel like it, yada yada). So, I asked my sister.

Moved on

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When I set up my account here-I had the potential to be a SM but since then things have changed drastically. The relationship between he and I had deteriorated to the point of petty punishments if anyone disciplined his 2 kids. I tried suggesting "family meetings" with the hopes of lining out to all 5 of the children-now almost 18, 15, 8,7, and 5 the expectations we had of each of them on their levels of understanding. As could be expected, my teenagers get it-I raised them; they knew what I expected.