I hope that this isn't too depressing a post!
How do you accept it when step kids that you've cared for just have no interest at all anymore? Or not much to begin with either!
My DSCs, all four of them, are in their late teens or adulthood, and recently either live with their mum or their own place. We used to have two full time, and all every single weekend. I've known them half their lives.
Yet they hardly visit, when they do they speak to each other, DP and go on the XBox. They ignore me completely. I ask them how they are but it's like pulling teeth. They ignore my son, my half brother too. It feels unnatural, not like normal teen self absorption. There's an unbreakable barrier. I'd like to just be able to accept but it's an unsaid strain with me and DP. I get on well with DPs mum, brother and sister. It's not forced. Why can't it be like that?
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Bananasinpyjamas1 · 27/02/2016 13:25
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