She was so upset and had told her stepdaughter to stay out of her studio.  She worked so long and hard on a sculpture.  She was supposed fly with the sculpture to a show, exhibit or some prestigious event.   The stepdaughter went to her studio and knocked it over and broke it. I remember her because it was so sad.  Wonder what ever happened to her?
 

Oh, I don’t think the sculptress left her DH just due to the broken sculpture.  Something such as that is usually more-so the straw that broke the back when it comes to SPs.  More than likely, she was on the fence already anyway due to manipulative, controlling BM or SK and weaker, enabling DH, and then came the broken sculpture or SK’s wedding or seeing older SD rubbing up against dad one time too many, etc., and it is out the door. 

Re: the crazy story, given this, “C cracked and said she was mad that Grandma wasn’t alive to make her a dress, and that it was "unfair" my sister got a free beautiful dress as a reminder when my daughter got "nothing," despite the many things she was given after the funeral. She tried it on, took it off when the seams popped, and then in anger hacked it apart. If she couldn’t have a dress from Grandma, no one could. Her own words.”. . .  Yes, sometimes you can act so entitled that it comes across as sociopathic.  This is why I get so PO’d when someone tries to excuse rude, arrogant behavior from a teenager as somehow being “normal” for teens.  It isn’t.

Although the parents seem very well intentioned here and have the right attitude, I’d imagine between a child-centric society, school, peers, and media all feeding these children’s brains with how right they are and can never do wrong, and how entitled they are to nothing less than a perfect life (and if they don’t get it, it is someone’s else’s fault), these kids wind up feeling so entitled that they come across as sociopaths.  Sociopaths, however, never change, never outgrow it.  Some entitled young’ns may.  A good lesson, for example, may push them to grow up fast(er).  However, nowadays, there is the term adultolescent, meaning the age between 20 and 30 is no longer a guarantee of adulthood in the traditional sense.  Someone in that age group could be more adolescent than adult, so no one should be expecting these near sociopaths to grow up any time soon.

hold their shitty daughter accountable and not take her bs excuses is amazing. There were no excuses her parents would accept... thats parenting!!

why can’t more divorced parents behave like this? Parent like this??

its like the moment you divorce, holding kids accountable for bad actions is thrown out the door....