Sometimes I get really down because things that were the most important to me or that I deeply have been stripped away because of thoughtless, lazy skids.

1. I enjoy (and used to take immense pride) in having a beautifully decorated, spotless house. I am in interior design and keeping a beautiful house is important to me. I always have (until the past 7-8 years) had a stunning home. I am known for my artistic, elegant designs.

I think this article needs to be reposted because it is so helpful to stepparents.

http://www.examiner.com/article/man-the-middle-of-his-current-and-ex-spouse

Sometimes the flash ads make it hard to get to the article, so I'm going to take the liberty to post it here.

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The Man in the Middle

1. Skids stay up all night long eating every thing in sight and turning on every light in the house and even taking showers after 12:00 am

2. They sleep until 5:30 pm, so dinner is breakfast.

3. Their stinking filthy messes

4. Every time I look at them they are laying down like an invalid.

5. They never leave because they have 0 friends in real life.

Long story short. We met with out attorney yesterday regarding time and other issues. Our BM has taken advantage of us in all ways, time, money, etc. We are supposed to have them 50/50 but she always dumps them off on us for one reason or another and so for the past 8 years or so its been us 90% of the time and her 10%. Yet she still was receiving the full amount of child support.

Our new lawyer has been very successful is litigating the abused time and has had the BM have to PAY BACK the child support based on time! I thought I was dreaming when I heard him say that LOL!