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Submitted by TrueNorth77 on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 10:35am

Oh good, another skid-related argument. About SS15, per usual. Looking for thoughts on how to handle this:

Although overall a really good kid, I struggle with him the most because he is sneaky, and I don't like sneaky. Lies flow off his lips like nothing (usually small ones). Also, he is the golden child, and DH HATES giving any consequences to him. Anyway, recently, SS has: 

OMG with the coddling and divorced dad guilt!

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Submitted by TrueNorth77 on Fri, 08/07/2020 - 4:08pm

Hi S-talkers! It's been a bit. I hit a point today where I was about to lose my mind. To recap the past year- my BF and I bought a house (in my name only, don't worry), got engaged, and have been counting down the days until skid freedom. Ok that's probably just me, but still. SD is now 11 and still a great kid, and SS is now 14 and just started a job at a well-known fast-food restaurant in town.

Survived the skid vacay, but barely

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Submitted by TrueNorth77 on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 10:00am

Last I wrote, I was knee-deep in skid vacation hell, due to my SO's constant coddling and seeming need to entertain SD10 and SS13 almost every minute of the day, and skids inability to entertain themselves, which resulted in no alone time for us. Which was even more frustrating given that we had literally spent months researching resorts that had a teen and kids club so that (in my SO's words), skids could "have something else to do so we could do our own thing and not have them with us every minute".

Now we're tiptoeing around SD

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Submitted by TrueNorth77 on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 9:55am

I posted this wknd about how Crazy wants to buy or rent the house we used to rent that is now for sale, which is located 5 blocks away on the same exact street as the house we bought. When SD10 told my SO this, I think he panicked at the thought of her living so close, and also was frustrated because skids are just soooo on board with this idea, wanting to live in their old house again, that he definitely didn't handle it the way he should have.

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