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It has taken me until now to recover from last weekend.

3bk1sd's picture

I thought about packing up DH's things and telling him he no longer lives with me. Yes, I hate SD(12) so much that I actually considered giving up my marriage just to get rid of her. Not just SD of course but BM and the way DH deals with them. Even though I am still mad as hell I realize that she does come only 1-2 nights per month and I will just try to stay out of the house rather than give up on our family. What led to this?
Friday night- SD was at our house for 1 hour before she decided to go to her cousins for a sleepover. DH said "I can't say no to her, we'll all pay if I do". So, she was gone until Saturday at suppertime. She walked into the bedroom when DH was and then came out to the kitchen and got a cookie. I said "Put back the cookie, supper's ready". She said that her daddy told her she could have one and proceded to eat it and give me snotty looks. I just ignored her as usual, she took off to her room with the phone and called BM to tell her that I wouldn't let her eat a cookie. BM then called DH and screamed at him so loudly that I could hear the conversation 15 feet away. He actually sat the phone on his lap and didn't respond but let her yell for 10 minutes or more. When she was done he picked the phone back up and I heard him say "ok". He told me that he had to take SD home right away because that's what BM said to do.
The issues I'm having

1)Why in the heck did he take SD home? Isn't that rule #1 in fighting PAS? SD now feels like her mom rescued her from us and that can't be good.
2)Why would you let anyone screan at you for that long? I have had run ins with her before and I cut her right off. I say "I will hang up if you can't be civil". I have hung up on her before and she knows that I will do it again so if she really wants to talk to someone in our house and I answer she knows to be civil or she will get hung-up on. You teach people how to treat you!
3)Why when SD destroys property or is being very unresonable am I expected to keep my mouth shut. I am not to utter one word about the holes in her walls or my shampoo she dumped down the drain. I find this odd especially as you want to address every little thing that my children do.
4)You say that I am your first priority but when I think I may get ulcers from the stress of it all and you won't talk to me or address issues with SD I really don't see how that is putting me first.

I'm sure I could think of more to say but I am quite exhausted just thinking about it. I just really hope she doesn't come this weekend. She has been coming for Friday night usually 2 times per month and it seems like that 24 hours drags on for weeks.

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Anon2009's picture

I said this on another post, and ill say it here too, because I believe in it wholeheartedly: SD won't change her behavior unless DH changes his parenting styl. Do you really hate her, or do you hate how she's being raised and what she's allowed to get away with?

3bk1sd's picture

I hate her behaviour, how she is allowed to act and I don't think this will ever change as long as she lives with BM.

ddakan's picture

awe hun, i'm so sorry how awful they are acting. i think the daughter and the bm are being ridiculous, looking for any little reason to make trouble. dh needs to stand up to this b.s. and tell little sd that she is acting wrong.

my skids are 21, 20 and 17. the 17 year old and i have a mostly hate/hate relationship. its not that i'm not nice to him, is that he needs someone to blame for his low self esteem and problems.

i finally heard my dh take up for me 2 weeks ago when the ss17 got kicked out on the street (from bms house) and he refused to go get him and bring him to our house because of the way he treated me. that was after 10 LONG F ING years of this crap.

it isn't easy in stepfamiles at all. what you can expect is more of the same. but, they do grow up eventually....if you can wait it out.

mom2five's picture

Sweetie this has nothing to do with your SD or your BM. This is all about your DH. He is supposed to be the man in your house. The leader. He is supposed to protect you from shit like that. He is failing miserably as a father and as a husband.

3bk1sd's picture

I have told him that it is HIS fault SD and I do not get along. I have also told him that as my husband he is supposed to protect me from evil SD's and BM's. He said "oh, am I?" Uh yeah, they're you're problem to deal with and you should be able to stop the bs. I really don't know what will happen the next time she comes. I asked him to grow a pair because if he won't defend me I will do it myself. He asked if I could please just let things go and I asked him why he would want me to let SD and BM bully me? That is what is happening and I have finally decided to call them on their bs. Do you know what DH said when I asked why I should keep ignoring the bad behaviour? He said "Because I feel sorry for her".

mom2five's picture

I don't think he is going to change his behavior until you give him a reason to. I'm really sorry you are going through this. You deserve to be treated with love and respect by your DH. Your SD certainly doesn't have to love you...but she should have to show you respect. And BM shouldn't even be on the radar.