If you read back in my blog, I've had similar issues with SKids as the next suffering step mother. Although, I feel that I may have turned a slight corner . This entry doesn't really have a moral or question at the end of it, but I felt the need to express my current feelings.

Despite everything SO and I have been getting on quite well decently, where I WAS slowly learning to tolerate his children, and working hard not to create arguments over there behaviour and to be honest, there existence. BUT, a couple of weeks ago SS15 was caught smoking weed, and had admitted to also taking herbal drugs. I was worried initially, as of course drugs are bad for you, especially when your brain is still developing. But when SO started to get slightly obsessed with SS15 and his drug taking I started to get tired of the constant repeating of information I already knew.

I don't know if I'm alone in this but do any other Step parents out there, who don't have the Skids living with them (phew!!) feel, well, kind of violated or intruded when the Skids come to visit or stay? I feel this to such an extent sometimes that i end up resorting to hiding, or going to stay with my parents (pathetic I know). They quite clearly don't really like my presence, mainly due to the BM's hate toward me.