My step kids

[Lou2118]

Hi, so any advice is welcomed. I have been living with my partner a year now and he has 2 boys 6 and 8. I always had a great bond with them but the last few months I just feel so distant and detached from them. They are kids and yeah can push your buttons but feel I’ve no patience for them and struggling being around them at the moment. They live with us more than half the week so feel myself working late or doing things just to avoid going home. They aren’t bad kids but I just feel they are very demanding at times. They come here and just take over. As I say I used to feel close to them but definitely not anymore. Any advice is welcome.

This pretty much sums up being a step parent.

be open and honest with your partner, take a step back with being so hands on and let their actual parent do the majority of the work.

Being a step parent is hard and sometimes you just have to admit you can’t live in that situation for the next 15+ years.

Yeah definitely I feel guilty but just feel they take over and just constantly at me for attention. My partner knows but I feel bad as I never used to feel like this.