Newsflash: DW will be leaving next week for China at the end of April, on business. For three weeks. :jawdrop:

I'm a new stepfather (married last year) and I have never been alone with the skid for more than 4 hours. And he was in his room the entire time. DW is the common denominator in our lives and the fact that she's going to be gone for that long scares the shit out of both me and the skid.

SS18 has no hobbies other than gaming. He will sit at the computer from the time he gets up till the time he goes to bed with. He's too lazy to turn on the light after the sun has set, DW walks into his room and its pitch black except for the light from his computer screen. He will literally go to sleep at 7 am sometimes! He's smart and cocky about it. He came from an 'advanced' program in highschool so he's cruising through all his classes. DW is so proud of him, he can do no wrong.

Overall he's the mellow type but he's been known to blow up when he gets pissed off, telling DW to shut up or swearing at her. There were no consequences of course.

So far he's been indifferent to the fact that I married his mother but he's shot down all my efforts to get to know him. He ignores me in the house. On good days I can pry maybe two or three sentences out of him. I love my DW to death and I thought if I tried hard enough I can have a good relationship with her son. I don't have children of my own (although I always imagined I would), I DONT know what to do with this kid.

Wish me luck.