I made my bios text her a Happy Mother's Day. I know how it feels to be ignored by skids...

I feel bad for her. My ex is such a Disney dad, and my daughter takes such advantage. I would hate to be the SM to my bios. My ex will not enforce any parenting rules - he doesn't want to be the bad guy ever, so as the teenagers they are, they just ignore all the rules that she tries to lay down. It must suck. 

I have done all the hard parenting work of my bios their entire lives- all discipline, all re-inforcement. I just do it all because someone has to. 

I am in this weird position of trying to back up her rules for my kids in her house. I know the ex will not do it, so when my bios complain about it, I have to take her position and I tell them how awful it made me feel when, for example, my skids just ignore me when I come in a room, or worse, make a face at me behind soon-to-be-ex boyfriend's back. I want them to treat her better than I was treated. 

I have so much more sympathy now that I have dealt with my own set ot skids!!