Have posted a few times about my stepkids before with very mixed responses. The eldest stepson is 18 and has his own key as you would expect at that age. My problem is that he has gone out and left the house insecure with windows open (upstairs, but large windows) and on one occasion he went out and left the front door unlocked all afternoon (there was no one in the house). I'm now at the point where I don't trust him to lock up and it makes me worry all day if we leave him in the house alone and i know he's going out. I shouldn't really have to worry about this at his age, and my husband thinks we should learn to trust him. Is it unreasonable of me not to trust him if he hasn't proved that he can be trusted? He walks around in a dreamworld a lot of the time with no thought of the consequences of his actions. When we call him out on it he just shrugs and goes 'yeah sorry' 🙁
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