Dear Valued Users,
It's with a heavy heart that we announce the permanent closure of StepTalk.org on August 31st, 2025.
This decision wasn't an easy one. For over twenty years, StepTalk has been a source of support for stepparents around the world! However, over the years, the costs associated with maintaining and upgrading the site to remain secure, meet current standards and maintain availability have become unsustainable.
We are incredibly grateful for your support, contributions and the community you've helped us build. Your engagement has made StepTalk.org a special place and we cherish the memories and connections made here.
We would especially like to thank Aniki for volunteering to be a moderator and for caring so much.
Thank you for being a part of our journey and we wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
Dawn and The StepTalk Team
Greetings, ShinyMoose.i
Greetings, ShinyMoose.i
Welcome to Steptalk!
Now you just jump right right and post away on whatever it was that brought you here looking for other stepparents. You can vent. You can ask for advice or just share your situation and know there are other's of us out here who can relate to the ups and downs and hardships of being a stepparent.
Biggest mistake of my life?
Don't exactly know where to begin. Perhaps tell you what brought me here and where the state of things are at so you can ask me questions and fill the blanks as needed?
She and her two Skids (f 14, m 16) now avoid me altogether for the past two weeks. She sleeps in the guest room with her 14 yo daughter. Both kids have their own rooms, bath, playroom etc. I pay for everything. The house is my name only, I own both cars and she uses one of them. I thought I was doing the right thing but I am being stepped all over. She is completing her medical assistance degree by year's end and says she will get a job and move out then and asks to just allow them to stay until then. I tried hard to help with parenting but she refuses to let me and gets VERY angry when I point out that tey don't do their agreed upon chores, homework, etc. The boy has ADHD and is a computer gamoholic, which worries me. I am unemployed and desperately looking for work. What are my options right now? I am depressed, hurt, feel rejected and unable to figure out what I did wrong and what to do next. The first two years of what will be four in December were great. Love is gone, only hatred in her eyes toward me and she has turned the kids against me. I have never been abusive, other than arguments about things, in any way that I can honestly say that I know or recall.
Change the locks, take back
Change the locks, take back your car keys and get on with your life. If she is out of the relationship then she should be out of your life as should her kids. She is using you. Stop voluteering to be her money bitch.
Take care of you.