My boyfriend and I have recently moved into a 3-bed house and not long after that had our first child together. His daughter (aged 13) from a previous relationship visits two evenings a week and stays overnight every Saturday.
When we were discussing room allocations I suggested that our baby together should have the smaller box room as they won’t need that much space with being a baby and they’ll also be in our bedroom for quite some time. I wanted my step daughter to have the bigger room so she could feel a part of the family still and wouldn’t feel pushed out with the arrival of the new baby. Plus, she would need the space with her age. I also put a desk top computer with a printer in the room so she could do her homework and studying when she visits, which she currently doesn’t have at her mum’s house. We have furnished the room for her too but there is nothing personal really in the room as she brings her clothing with her when she visits. I have bought her stuff in the past for our house but she ended up taking them home with her and we’ve not seen them since.
My question anyway is would it be unreasonable and cause unnecessary resentment if we were to move our child in 4/5 year’s time when my stepdaughter is 18/19 into the bigger room as they will be living in the house 100% of the time and my stepdaughter only stays one night a week?
I feel a bit now that we have made a rob for our own backs by letting her have the bigger room straight off the bat. At the time, I thought that by the time my daughter was at an age to need a bigger room, my stepdaughter would be at an age where she wasn’t coming down to stay overnight anymore. I know it seems like it could be quite an easy thing to ask someone who will be older and more mature what I think is a reasonable request, however, we’ve had major problems with her mum over simple little things that she would cause a massive issue over. She has already put it into her daughter’s head that her dad doesn’t love her once her dad started going out with me and recently she’s told her she was ‘second best again’ after we picked her up from her mums house a few hours later than we usually do on a day that she doesn’t usually come to visit. The problem is that her mum will force her down to visit her dad even if she’d rather be out with her friends or whatnot, even at the age of 18.
I was just wondered what people’s opinions of this are?
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timelord92 · 04/10/2017 05:23
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