Here is what every visit is like with my boyfriend’s 7 y.o. daughter. She is here every other weekend but its always the same and i can’t stand this anymore.

Friday - She gets here around 7pm, gets settled in, there is a battle over going to bed, lots of screaming and crying.

Saturday - There’s always a fight over getting her up, dressed and fed. she refuses to do what she’s told, she cries and screams. My boyfriend plans something for them to do Saturday afternoon but she’s in trouble the whole time. He has stopped taking her unless she behaves and she never does. She refuses to eat dinner, screams more and then there’s another battle to get her into bed.

Sunday - Her behavior keeps getting worse and worse but there’s nothing we can do since she leaves for her mom’s at 4pm. The past couple of months she has been getting up at like 5am and sits next to the front door with her little suitcase and things go downhill from there. There’s more tantrums, screaming, crying. It’s a relief when she leaves.

Then 2 weeks later, it starts over and over again. I can’t stand this anymore and nothing gets better. Every visit gets worse and worse.