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Answer choices: A. The stepkids B. Your husband C. The ex-wife

Overwhelmed in Texas's picture

Question - Which of the following causes the most trouble and stress in your marriage...

A. The stepkids....you just really don't like them and they are unpleasant to be around....

B. Your husband, it isn't really the kids that are stressful, its his inablity to manage them

C. The ex-wife....she is a pyscho bitch who has a vendetta and is out to ruin your new family unit at any cost...including the welfare of the kids....

(my vote will come later)

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Mom on the Edge's picture

I vote for D.

By the way, I think your husband and my fiance were married to the same psycho bitch. There can't be two of them that bad in this world. But your description above fits her to a "t"!! We should swap horror stories!

Overwhelmed in Texas's picture

are you sure your's is this bad...a Sample...this woman homeschooled her children because public schools are evil and satanic, but she wasnt actually teaching them anything at home, she left them alone all day while she went garage saling...and she is also a religious freak and told the kids that if they went trick or treating on halloween that the devil would get them and take them all to hell! Then she starting kicking kids out because they had bad attitudes....I could go on and on!

Rae's picture

A guy I dated for years had an ex who believed that her husband and three year old son had demons. She had the demons "casted out" from her son. At three...

Catch22's picture

Because of C...is that an appropriate answer?

Catch xx
*Mean People Suck*

Anne 8102's picture

An unfair and sickeningly biased court system that makes it impossible for us to live harmoniously with A, B, C.

~ Anne ~

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."
(Truman Capote)

Mom on the Edge's picture

on that one. My fiance's ex uses her kids as an excuse not to work full time (she's been getting assistance for more than 7 years!) and continues to scam the state for housing assistance by claiming that the kids live with her 50% of the time when they haven't lived with her that much in three years. We finally took her to court after she was arrested for possession of coke less than 10 minutes after dropping the kids off at our house, got into a physical fight at a 9-yr olds birthday party, and took the kids out in the middle of the night on New Year's Eve to an abandoned parking lot to "meet one of mom's online friends that she's never met before!" (out of the mouth of my 9 yr. old SD) She is a pathological liar and can't even remember what lies she's told so she gets herself in more trouble! (especially in court - that's fun!) But yet an "annonymous" caller called DCYS on us and had US investigated! (how convenient the call came in one week before our final court date....?) UGH! I could go on and on......she is a waste of good air!

Overwhelmed in Texas's picture

I think the husband is the ultimate problem, at least for us. He is the one that allows his kids to not follow the house rules, he doesn't follow through on consequences that we agreed to with them and he favors them when it is time to be tough, but doesn't have any problem being hard on mine. Regard the ex- she has all the power she has because he has let her throw her temper tantrums and felt like he had to tolerate her behavior simply because she is the mother of his children. He should have shut her down long ago and she would have caused us a lot less problems!

Lisa Frances's picture

Crazy unbalanced and unintelligent Ex Wife is no.1 irritation. She just won't go away and get a new life.

She is lonely, boring and desperate to get any attention.

Smile Just keep smiling......................

Tired2's picture

It really starts with "B" - Dad doesn't control SD so therefore "A" the SD knows that daddy will step in to give her what she wants regardless of what it is. "C" but not because she's evil - because she's literally a moron. She had her first child at 15 (after getting pregnant at 14) so you can imagine what level of schooling she finished. By the way, that child was not SD. She's NEVER on time to meet us for the scheduled pick up/drop off...being AT LEAST 15 minutes late most of the time MORE....this bitch makes my blood boil with her stupidity so I must stop or I'll be angry all day.

tired_of_it_all's picture

I can only imagine what it would be like if all 3 of them (my DH, my SS, and my DH's ex) fell off the face of the earth...peace, at last. I think my DH should have stayed with his ex, it would have made my life more bearable. The 3 of them deserve each other. My DH's ex actually told me once that I'm a bad mother because I won't let her son (my SS) do what ever he wants when he use to come my house. Can you believe that?

goingcrazy's picture

It has to be B because he is the reason that the ex and skids all exist in my life, right? He is the one who needs to make SD act right, and his is the one who is supposed to deal with EX and doesn't. So even though the other two add more stress, it ultimately lands on his shoulders!!! (That and I am pissed off at him right now so it is easy to answer that)

Cruella's picture

Ok if I have to pick one it would be C. She is a real pain in the ass and just plain evil incarnate.

Mocha2001's picture

Ex Wife and court system.

~ Katrina