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Lainey's picture

I am on the brink of leaving my husband. I simply cannot tolerate living full time with his son for one more second of my life. at this point i cannot stand the sight of him. my H makes excuses for his behaviour all the time and never backed my up, ever. for example he is rude to me, my BD even my dad and his gf. my H says he's shy, ha. his behaivour is ignorant, shy people don't mouth off. my h is not even working and has brought many debts with him so i am stuck paying for the house the bills the food etc. i resent every mouthful that his "shy" son puts in his mouth. only recently has my h made is son do anything for himself, but has ignored the items that i want done, for example he taught him to make fried eggs, but neglected to show him or tell him that he needs to clean up after himself. when i told him SS to clean the pan after himself (as i don't find finding a dirty frying pan on my stove EVERYDAY when i come home work very decorative) i came back in the kitchen to find the pan in the sink. of you would have thought that H would have backed me up, think again, he cleaned it for him!!!!!!!
a while back i took the position to not get involved and ignore him, i make no conversation other than excuse me when appropriate. i think that my resentment would not be quite so high if i was not paying for this joy.
about 98% of the arguments between H & W have been about the SS. I can't stand it, i tell my H that the only thing he requires his son to do is wipe his own but, and that is only because he doesnt want to, other than that h cuts the kids meat, hello he's 15. Bet you're wondering were BM is? she dropped the kid off to BD when he was 7 to live with her new bf. she comes around when she decides and my h wont' say boo to her. i told my h 2 month ago that i was having vacation the last 2 weeks in july and could he make arrangements with bm to have HER son since i have him in my house 24/7 (he has not friends and never leaves) so kid miraculasy is already at bm's before my vacation started so i'm thinking heehaa time to self. then open the door and there is ss coming home for a couple of days. ofcourse this was another fight with h as he did not even make the arrangements that his wife, currently the only working adult in the house, does not even deserve a vacation! did i mention the last time i had 2 weeks off was in 1996? i feel i am due. my h refuses to have him move to his mothers or even comprimise by more frequent and longer vists there, he completly leaves it up to the kid and the ex. we have only lived together for 14 months, and never even had a fight before that. now we fight all the time, about ss and money or lack of, sex is a distant memory and the house is up for sale. i told h that i want to go back to living the way we did before. me and my BD in one house and him and ss in another. i don't want to lose my husband but i cannot and will not have my house run by a child and his mother. any advice?

NoHope's picture

I completely sympathize with you. I married my DH Aug 08 and moved to my own home in Jan 09. I simply could not live in a home run by my ss16 and ss14. Their mother is deceased, skids didn't want to visit grandparents and they were always home. DH guilt parented to the nth degree and could not/would not man up and set order in our house. I am raising my bs10 and I didn't feel like was doing right by him to make him live in a house where the other kids had no rules, expectations, manners, respect, consequences, were rude, help themselves to whatever they wanted of mine and my BS's without asking, didn't clean after themselves, no chores, indulged in porn with no objection form DH, etc. Not to mention I was MISERABLE and felt my anxiety level rising every day. I was afraid to sleep because ss14 had started threatening to beat BS if BS didn't do what SS14 wanted. SS14 would sneak into BS's room at night if he thought I was asleep. DH did nothing.

Moving was the best thing I could have done for BS and myself. I'm harboring guilt for walking out but the alternative was not tolerable without my DH addressing the problems and supporting me in my desire for a respectful, clean and courteous home. DH acts like nothing happened, doesn't want counseling and nothing has changed. I've lost hope for the future. I think I will file soon.

I hope you can find a solution that meets your needs because your crew seems to have it just like they want it.

Theenforcer's picture

Your H needs a reality check. I would give him a deadline of one week to get his act together and lay down the rules for his SS and biomom. If he doesn't do it, I would move with your BD and let him and his child fin for themselves. I would start making plans to move. You have rights and you should not be treated like this -especially since you are paying all the bills. If you don't stand up and demand respect, nothing will change. It makes me so angry to read this!! So sorry you have to deal with this. I also feel sorry for your BD as she has to witness her mom going through this.

Learning the Ropes's picture

And that includes what is whose responsibility in the house, including the SS that you are paying for the care of! I would explain to your H that things have to change, and that will include regular chores for the SS to "earn his keep" and I would be sure that he is doing enough that it helps take some stress off of you. At 15, he should at the very least be cutting the lawn, doing his own laundry, taking out the trash, washing the cars, and it would be great for him to learn to vacuum, load/run/empty a dishwasher, help cook, and clean bathrooms. One day, he'll have a wife that thanks you both!

I wouldn't give him a dime of spending money (which I'm sure a 15yo just expects to appear in their hands) unless he was meeting his responsibilities. No new clothes for school, either. He can earn money to buy those by doing chores. My rule of thumb is $1 per week per year of age, and roughly 1 responsibility per week per year of age. So my 8yo son has about 8 chores, and if he does them, gets $8/week. Things like make your bed each morning, bring big trash can back in from street after pickup, age-appropriate things. If he volunteers to help others with their chores, he gets a couple of "bonus dollars" for that, so his max is $10. He has done math in a store before to see how many weeks it will take him to get a new game, so he's getting it, I think.

Lainey's picture

thanks for the reply, you make total sense and i have said the same to my DH. the problem is his head is in the clouds and he doesn't listen to me at all. before we moved in we had several discussions about the division of chores, money etc. now he is basically ignoring me. i think that he doesn't want to rock the boat with his BS or the BM, somehow rocking mine has become his choice. that is why i told him the house is going up for sale and he can get a place to house his son, i say house because that is all that he does he doesnt spend any quality time with him at all the kid is in his room all the time. i amm so frustrated and dissapointed that it has come to this, but the whole thing is making me an angry person and i am not enjoying my marriage at all so far. as for the spending money, i would never give the kid a thing his BM gives him money and buys him clothes etc. i just want him out of my house and considering the support i get from DH, i think i am making the right choice.

Orange County Ca's picture

If the household were "normal" financially - that is both of you earning a income I would suggest you just get out of the kids life. I.e. stop interacting with him.

But you're carrying the full load here and getting no support from the main freeloader who's dragging the second one with him. Let Dad support the kid elsewhere.

You are past due in taking this action.

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There's an exception to everything I say.

Lainey's picture

I stopped interacting with him along time ago, with us mortgaged to the ears, i have the house up for sale to get rid of both if needed. if my DH can't bring more to the house than i am buying a smaller one on my own, and have already told him that ss is coming coming with me. i think he is in denial about that so far though