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I don't like my stepson as a person. We have our conflicts, but I feel it's much more than just a parent/child power struggle. He instigates arguments, is disrespectful, and acts like the victim in EVERY situation. He talks back to me, talks over me and even argues with his dad. He's 11. This past semester w/ school, he lied contstantly about getting his assignments done and ended up w/ F's in almost all of his classes by progress reports. He always has an excuse for everything. My husband doesn't really come down on him about the lying. I feel that we should be much harseher about it.
Decided to return to co-dependent employer headquarters .... thank heavens it was just part of the day not the whole day.
It was mostly cool good thing a new manager so somewhat fresh re-start, but the ALWAYS busy - for the type of pay, rigid schedule, their stinginess with pto has reminded me to always be looking for next opportunity. My goal = major steps towards promotion/salary increase in T minus 30 days or less.
Glad I didn't have to see the co-workers face2face. I didn't interact with them much (mainly to save time) although I wanted to.
So DH gets an email from the swim club that SS14'S account is over $1000 in arrears and he's not allowed to enter the pool. At this point DH had already dropped him off and when he went to check on him he saw he was in the pool. He didn't say anything to SS14 about it, just told BM to pay.
Well BM called SS14 the next day crying about how sorry she was and telling him she owed $15,000 to the swim club blah blah blah. SS14 came to tell me and he was very upset.
venting.. My mother is very much alive...but very absent in my life, my brother that is still living and all our children's. She only shows face when she wants a special "kodak" moment to show all her friends on social media world. But lately its been very painful... i've completely cut ties to her as she has me.
You longtime members here with me know my situation... I had one child naturally.. adopted a sd and am raising 2 more sd's.
....not!
Well my managers manager calls me and I decided to answer.
*I shouldn't have answered ugh bc she completely caught me off guard
Mind you I'm in the middle of filing unemployment....
Asking me if I'm okay and no explanation as to why my calendar was blank when I first asked weeks ago.
Then asking if I wanted to come back to work for them....tomorrow.
IDK if I have legal leverage with the FMLA issue or if they're just so hard up for employees after they let a bunch of people go.
YSD18 hasn't been here but for once in early February this year.
DH is increasingly upset about it. I keep telling him to continue to ask her, leave her messages, etc. but don't stop. It's not like her really but I have to wonder, child support ended for him at the end of February....She is also really terrible at communications and human engagement which I also remind him of so it may actually not be a personal thing.
STILL I tell him, it's rude.
I encourage him to go to her. Seek her out. Set a date.
For a little refresher... SO and BM have been separated 13 years...they did get back together briefly (aka BM had no man at the time and SO was stupid) but it lasted maybe 2 months and that was 11 years ago. I've been with SO 8.5 years and BM is married and has been with her husband longer then I've been with SO. She lives 4 miles from us. There is SS20, SS19 and SDstb17 (3 weeks)
Mom, dad, and DW picked me up at the airport at 20:00 on Friday evening. We had a great quick weekend at mom and dad's. Saturday we had breakfast with mom, dad, niece, and her DH then went to my brother's house for a morning visit on Saturday. We ended up having lunch at my brothers "club".
Have I mentioned that my baby bro is a business executive savant? He has done exceptionally well. No envy on my part. Just pure pride in the man, DH, dad, son, brother, and leader that he is. Please give me a lump in my throat proud big brother reset moment. Ha... hmmmm.
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