I don't know if I can continue subjecting myself and my household to the regular manipulative bull that my sd21 keeps pulling. It physically makes me ill. I just don't know what to do or where to go. I really have no one to confide in. She continues to stoop to using her child to control dd. She came over Saturday for the first time in 8 weeks and by Monday is asking for her payment...a new phone. Dd expects nothing from her and she is still treated like a queen. His birthday was last week...he told me to tell my daughter what he wanted. She got it and attended the gathering. Could his children do any attending? Nope. His oldest brings what seems to be an insulting card about a tobacco spitting hillbilly and an old anime collectible card and you would think was golden. And now she expects a prize? My kid who is one year her elder...asks for nothing. It all is so sickening I could gag.

I am sure that advice would be to leave him, but that really isn't an option. I just want peace.