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zerostepdrama's picture

I have some things I want to confess and just get off my chest. Who better to understand then other SPs, right? However we all know how we can tell a story or say something here on ST and then we are slammed for being mean, jealous, just as petty as BM, etc.

And while I will 99.9% of the time agree with being positive, staying positive, taking the high road, doing the right thing, not letting toxic people affect us and while I normally dont let things that annoy me, bug me for too long or take up too much space in my head... I am human and I too have moments of "weakness" where things annoy me and I just need to bitch about them.

So if you have 1 (or 10) things that you want to confess to when dealing with this crazy life of step parenting, please feel free to share.

I will post mine below Smile

ETA: If you are going to respond please keep from posting negative stuff about what someone confesses. If you dont like this post, then just skip over it.

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zerostepdrama's picture

**It bugs me that OSD calls her SDs "my girls". It bugs me in that they aren't her girls. They have a BM and she seems like a decent one. It's just a reminder of how OSD has no boundaries and takes it upon herself to be #1 in every aspect.

**Also in a teeny tiny way I am a little jealous in that I wish I liked my SDs enough to even consider them "my girls". Having a good relationship with the skids would mean a better relationship with DH and probably a happier marriage and overall life. Not that I let the skids situation affect me that much, but its the elephant in the room....

**I can't stand looking at YSD. I dont know why. But I always have a hard time even looking at her when I do see her, which isnt that often. The other skids I can at least look at and fake a conversation with. Not YSD. I think its because she is just such a bitch. She just acts so snotty and entitled and she just doesnt give a fuck if you think she is a bitch. I didnt even acknowledge her when she came over the othe day. I feel kind of guilty about it and immature. Because I am the adult. And that just feeds into the "evil SM" and why she probably doesnt like me.

** In general I wish the skids never existed. Not that I wish any harm on them. And if something happened I would be very upset. But they bring nothing positive to my life. And even with DH I dont see much happiness from him when it comes to the skids. It's always like they are a PITA.

**Sometimes I think my anger/resentment/saddness over the skid situation is more powerful then my love for DH Sad

Accordn2L's picture

LMAO!!! I have thought the same thing! BM has 3 baby daddies. And I look at my SO like you dumb retard!

Accordn2L's picture

My SO was the only fool that married BM, face palm! He was actually married to her while all three kids were conceived! So 10 year old boy's daddy was a hit and run, she let SO believe he was the father until about 2 years ago, then DNA confirmed he was not his and BM refuses to let SO see him. SD8 was in fact his but he had a DNA test done after the one for the boy said he was not the father. Just my luck the little wall shitter was in fact his. Then they split up becuase she got knocked up by Thug Life all the while they were still married. So Thug Life dumps her and she has an abortion. He decides he wants her back so she lies and says she had a miscarriage. She wouldn't pay her half of the divorce so she just had another baby and the divorce wasn't final until two weeks after the baby was born so that baby has no name listed as father at this time.

It's a hot mess!

JingerVZ's picture

Eeeeww. I thought only gross biobitch in my case has three baby daddies, 4 husbands (not at the same time) and more stepkids or ex stepkids than I can count!

askYOURdad's picture

Stepmom confessions hmmm...

Mine are all silly ways that I keep my sanity.

1. I typically grocery shop when the skids leave. We always have food in the house, don't worry I don't neglect them, but if I grocery shop the day they arrive, we are out of everything within two days. If I grocery shop when they leave food lasts two weeks.

2. When it comes to things like shampoo, razors, toothpaste, toilet paper etc. The dollar store is my friend. I refuse to buy expensive personal care products when they use a third of them in one shower.

3. Most of the clothes I buy the skids are "thrift/second hand" or are from TJ Maxx type places, I always wash them before I give them to skids that way they don't see the tags (the stupid name brand crap is important to BM and she would never stoop to the level of being reasonable with money and using something as horrid as a hand-me-down)

4. At any given time in my home there is likely a carton of ice cream under all of the frozen veggies in the freezer (sshhhhhh!)

tiny kitten's picture

Ice cream! When I buy ice cream, I prefer to buy it the week SD7 is gone so I don't have to share... And if we had an embarrassed smiley, I'd use that now.

Tiffanyartist11's picture

I can so relate to this. When I buy groceries they are gone in a second. I don't dare buy soda when they're around. They'll drink 6 cans a day. As far as ice cream goes, just yesterday I pulled a bunch of stuff out of the freezer to hide my quart of specialty homemade lemon that I bought at an annual event in my hometown. Its nicely wrapped in peas and mixed vegetables...safe and sound for my sister and I to enjoy when they leave tomorrow night.... sigh....

SunshineAndRainbows's picture

YES on the grocery shopping. I am FINALLY getting my strict snacking rules (no needless snacking just for the sake of shoving food in your face, no snacks if you don't eat your meals, etc) enforced in my home. However, we live next to DH's parents and the kid runs to their house to steal their food. Whatever dude, as long as you're not wasting my groceries!

JingerVZ's picture

Confession::

I hate kids. The SM situation has made me hate kids. I hate the snot nosed brats. I don't like YOUR kids either. I hate ALL kids. Kids disgust me.
I wish my stepson was never born - I hate the sight of him.

I hate BM of my stepson too. The woman makes my skin crawl.

There I said it! finally!!
Confession is good for the soul.

Crazed Stepmama's picture

I hear all of you! I always try and find an excuse to leave (go grocery shopping, etc.) as soon as the skids get here because they are most obnoxious the moment they enter my home. I need that hour away if I can get it!
I also implemented some house rules just to annoy the sh*t out of the entitled brats.

My soul feels cleaner now...

clydella's picture

Oh yah, I gotta give ya an Atta A Girl for that, I think it's awesome, your a total Bad-ass and my new hero!!

zerostepdrama's picture

Oh yeah with the grocery shopping... I used to do that as well. Shop AFTER they leave. The times I didnt (like if I didnt know they were coming over- surprise!) I would hide stuff.

They had no problem drinking a 12 pack of gatorade in a weekend. Eating a whole bag of chips. A whole pan of brownies.

askYOURdad's picture

lol! I don't buy the pre-packaged snacks but will bake a pan of brownies. The baked brownies cost $2 and if they eat it all who cares. The pre-packaged stuff is great for lunches/on the go snacks and it annoys me when they sit there and open 12 in a row!!!

Aniki-Moderator's picture

I hate that SS16 cannot play video games w/o talking constantly. We do NOT need a play-by-play or hear about every single screw-up.

I hate that DH had to badger SS12 until the filthy child takes a shower. His neck looks like desert camo and he makes Pigpen look like a clean freak.

Would desperately love to tell the skids that their mother is a filty wh0re who was actually getting guys to PAY her.

I want to gloat to the world that I am 12 years older than BM and she looks 15 years older than me!

Meow....

askYOURdad's picture

hahaha }:) a younger, less mature version of myself, after a breakup, when random guys would ask me for my number I would give them my ex's, I knew it had to irk him to have guys calling looking for me. Now, texting is too common to probably pull that one off.

Accordn2L's picture

Ok confession: When SO found out that the son he had raised for 10 years was not his and BM wouldn't let him have any contact with the kid and told him that "Daddy didn't love him anymore and only loved SD8 and daddy never wanted to see him again". Of course that was a lie and hurt my SO. At that time I was so deeply in love I had to get revenge. I asked around and found out who the biological father was. I made a fake facebook account and contacted him, he was a real peach too. He was fresh out of jail for meth charges, had a few other kids who looked almost identical to BM 10 year old, and had the ugliest wife I'd ever seen! I took it upon myself to let him know that BM was looking for him wanting child support and gave him her private cell number and address. That drama kept her busy for quite a while and gave us time off.

dragonsfyre's picture

My confession is that I talked DH out of giving up all ties with his son, and now regret it. BM amped up the PAS and craziness when we got together and DH felt hopeless about ever having a relationship with SS. For awhile he thought SS would be better off without the constant drama. I'm not sure that DH would have actually done it, but sometimes I think back and daydream about how nice it would be to not have to deal with crazy BM or bratty SS who is always out to see what he can manipulate others into doing for him and still pees in his sleep all over my couch despite having his own room for the four nights a month he sleeps here...

justanothergurlNJ's picture

OHHH HELL. I write BM phone # on my money when I am out shopping with message like SWF looking for a good time lol

zerostepdrama's picture

I check DH's checking account sometimes to see how much he spends when he takes the skids out to eat. Then I judge them by how big the bill was= meaning they are clearly a bunch of glutton fat asses eating that much food to have such a high bill.

This is when I am really bitchy and the skids did something recently to directly affect me.

zerostepdrama's picture

Sometimes I do... or I take my BS out to dinner on his dime Smile

Really he only sees the skids if he is taking them to dinner, so I shouldnt complain. BUT its like he has rewarded them for their bad behavior. You can be a jerk and not come over and I will just spoil you with a nice dinner instead.
And then DH spends so much time eating out with the skids that he never takes me!

***I will say though DH is making more of an effort.

SharkHugs's picture

My 2 stepsons are fat, fugly mini-BMs. They both stink and have no talent or common sense. I wish they would both go stay with their mother permanently.

clydella's picture

I secretly wish that DH never has anything to do with SD again. I play nice and act like I hope they can make amends and repair their relationship to DH but on the inside I'm hoping I never have to see or hear about her again, ever.

queenofthedamned's picture

I cannot stand my oldest skid. He is materialistic, shallow, annoying, a brand whore, and not fun to be around in any way. Unless I'm drinking.

FDH does not know the depth of my disdain for his son, but I practically vomit in my mouth when he walks in a room.

Drac0's picture

Okay here's mine:

SS has a girlfriend. She's cute, she's smart and she seems to take good care of hereself.

HOW IN THE HELL DID MY SS LAND HER!?!? Seriously, when I was SS's age, the ONLY way I could get a girlfriend like that was if I was a rich Sultan's son. SS's one and only redeeming feature is that he's tall. I know some girls/ladies see that as a virtue in a guy but.....WHY!?!?....So that the man can feel the raindrops first give you a split second warning that it's raining?

tiny kitten's picture

We need someone to reach the top shelf.
Well... I need someone to reach the bottom shelf, too. Our shelves are unusually high.

hereiam's picture

I am glad SD23 lives 40 minutes away so she doesn't visit very often and doesn't call my husband for stupid crap, like when she locked her keys in her car.

Since BM raised SD to be co-dependent, I'm glad she's co-dependent on BM and not my husband (and lives with BM, not us).

I'm glad my husband doesn't trust SD, so he will not allow her to use her kids as weapons (I really want nothing to do with her kids).

Although I am sorry that BM destroyed the close relationship that DH & SD once had, considering how SD has now turned out, I am not sorry that they have never gotten back what they once had.

I feel like such a bitch. SD is 23 but maturity wise, she's still about 14 (and dumb) and I just don't want to deal with having a dependent teenager around forever. So, yeah, I'm glad that she and DH are not as close as they used to be.

Newstep's picture

1. I literally can't stand her sometimes and I don't really know why. Is it because she is a liar and manipulator?? Or because she is so phony nice to your face and then shit talking behind my back??

2. I throw away every single pair of trashy booty shorts that come in my house on her ass }:) If they are here when she leaves back to BM's they go straight to the trash can

3. I make all our plans and mini vacations when she is not with us, I will not have the very limited free time I have away from work ruined by her shitty attitude and mini-wife attitude.

No too bad I guess LOL

Steppy MN2's picture

I have several:

1. That skids would never come to my house again, EVER! They would choose to spend all their time with their BM. She can have them! And DH has to admit that he did everything for his kids and they just treat him like crap. And he shouldn't have keep choosing them over me.
2. That OSD and YSD turn 25 and still haven't ever had a date (OSD is 21 and YSD is 18 and neither one has had a boyfriend or a date - guess that's what happens when you're daddy's little princesses) but then some loser latches on to them for life.
3. That smug OSS's wife divorces his ass and he has to pay mega CS because he is so selfish and cheap (well except with other people's money, he doesn't have a problem spending that).
4. That lazy YSS finally has to work to earn something instead of everything just being handed to him and DH taking care of his laziness. Seriously, a 13 year old can't mow the yard without Daddy hovering over him and mowing the harder parts for him and then paying YSS $20 for mowing the yard. Geez!
5. THat I find the courage and the "I don't give a crap" attitude to make all the snarky comments I want to when the skids are bragging about how wonderful they are.
Hmmmmmmm.............maybe I a the Evil Stepmother that they think I am! Oh well.

hereiam's picture

Exactly where it belongs if she doesn't want to pick up after herself and her kids.

I can't imagine going to someone's house and just leaving my crap laying around.

stefanyrusso's picture

I'm just not sure there is anyone worth going through this for.... My confession: I am one foot out the door and planning to escape all this chaos! I cannot stand being last on anyone's list. I deserve more. Blum 3

Dontcallmemom's picture

I can't stand ss (now 14...woohoo, only 4 more years!) I don't like to call him SS but I guess that's technically what he is. Last week he made some idiot comment about how he'd show up to my work some day and say that I'm his stepmom and he'd get to come right in and get a tour ( I work in a place that people want to get tours often but we're not open to the public). All I could think was "yeah, see how f$&@ing far that gets you, kid". I'd much sooner welcome some random kid off the street into my work zone than I'd ever welcome SS. Barf!!! Ooh, he annoys the s?$/ out of me!

bks6717's picture

1. I take their shit and throw it away...or steal their change. Hey, just like they do to me. I've spent four yrs trying to be nice and provide for these lazy, disrespectful SK and all they want to do is take MY stuff. Since they never listen to me, I just do onto others as they do to me. I mean, obviously they think this is normal.

2. I wish they were never born.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Ah, the change. I don't consider it stealing if it's 1) on the floor or 2) in the bottom of the washer...

hippiegirl's picture

Well, when DH and I first got together, he had hoards of pictures of BM and skids. Well, the apartment we were living in at the time had a kitchen window that opened into like a large bush, small tree, whatever you wanna call it. Those pictures disappeared slowly over the months while he was at work (yup, out the window and into the bush/tree). I did not want pics of preggo BM in my house. I feel kinda bad about destroying the skids baby pics, though.

NOT!

Funny thing is, DH never noticed they were missing. If he did, he didn't ask about it.