EVERY DAY..... Really, I feel this way often.

Yes, I most certainly do. You are not alone!

OH YA!!!!! ALL THE TIME!! But it is just a waste of my time b/c he usually gets what he wants.

all.the.time.

I do. Everytime I have to deal with the disrespect or manipulation. Just the looks alone sometimes can get my blood a boiling.

When SS was younger and had more time outs I would actually say to him "You're not going to win." Pissed him off something awful

I said it to DH's 14 daughter. I said,"you are 14 not forty and you are not running this house". It pissed her off and she attacked me, promply got her ass sent to juvi by way of assault charges from the police! When she came back, she knew she wasn't going to win the war!

Yep. I felt just that way since loser started making up bullshit stories about me, since BM started her crap, since the ILs started their crap...and although honestly, sometimes I wish I would have let them won...lol here we are 13 years later and at the end, I "won". When I stopped focusing on what she did to me that was not fair and all the others, they shot themselves in the foot and DH was able to see it all on his own.

DH will NEVER talk to his ex again, he hasn't talked to his sister in about 7yrs and has no plans to, rarely talks to his mother and will only talk to his daughter under HIS CONDITIONS now. He has seen them for all they have done...it must suck to be them now.

I say this to myself all the time!!! SD15 hasn't been home in weeks. I WIN!!!! }:)

yes, i do. she's learning more and more that she does NOT get to control mine and fdh's lives. i think this last round we had a few months ago with her trying to force me to "help" her with her pregnancy (yeah, i have no idea either) which led to me putting her in her place and then blocking her on fb and my phone was a big kick in the ass for her. i don't think she thought i would do it, or if i did, that fdh would make me unblock her and do what she wanted.

the reason i think she's learning that she has no dictatorship in our lives is because she hasn't been over and hasn't as far as i know been in contact with fdh. i think she's pissed because she expects him to punish me like a child for not doing what she tells me to and obviously he isn't going to do it.

it's really up to her how far she wants to take it. the more shit she starts, the further she distances herself from fdh and bs4. that's her choice, not mine. she is the one with something to lose, not me.