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Anyone else had enough?! Join me for a glass of virtual prosecco!

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happygirl87 · 09/08/2015 21:41

Sometimes I find being a step-mother all too much! Can't even be bothered to go into it - just pass the Wine! Anyone else?!

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coffeeisnectar · 28/08/2015 20:09

Sounds like a good plan.

He's gone out with dsd. We were all meant to be going but mine have mutineed and I'm not even talking to him.

Fuck knows how she will cope with no internet.

LetTheChipsFall · 30/08/2015 10:35

Ugh, kids taken over the front room jumping around and fighting (and one is taller than me & the other not far off! , is it too early for gin?

OutToGetYou · 30/08/2015 10:50

Never too early for gin!

I am home with dp but of course we are barely speaking, so the only weekend all summer, and for months, without dss and we can barely look at each other. Oh, and I have a jippy tummy. Great.

LetTheChipsFall · 30/08/2015 13:49

My DH isn't speaking to me either, fuck knows why, I've kept out of their way (so I'm not too involved) but now I'm "not joining in and causing and atmosphere!". He says he doesn't want to be around me and has taken ds and his dd away to mil for the night. I might add, he was going to do this anyway so as to give me a break as I've not had any time away from ds (toddler) for the whole summer holidays. DH has had no time off (except to take his two out) and this was his suggestion. But now it's not to give me a break but it's to get away from me and I've pushed him out supposedly, God knows how he came to that conclusion. All I know is is this is my first time home alone over night since ds was born!

DragonsToSlayAndWineToDrink · 30/08/2015 14:58

Am having a lovely few (child free) days away with DH and not much Internet, but just managed to log on and saw all the posts- Chips, Coffee and Out you are all super women doing an amazing Job of holding together what seems like impossible situations! BrewWineCake and Flowers for you all

  • Disclaimer - I have been on the prosecco. But the sentiment is still heart-felt!-
LetTheChipsFall · 30/08/2015 15:19

Thanks dragon, in on the wine myself now! ????why not?

OutToGetYou · 30/08/2015 15:47

Sigh.

So, I tried to talk to him Friday night - I ignored his hectoring tone when he said "So, do you want to tell me what's going on?" and tried to explain how I felt.
Anything I feel he says "right, so it's all my fault?", anything I say happened he either denies, huffs and says I am twisting things or says he can't remember.

He then goes on to yell at me that I have ruined every single holiday we have ever been on by being 'in a mood' for reasons he doesn't know. I didn't even go on last year's holiday (because he booked it and I didn't want to spend yet another fucking holiday with his family, traipsing round after other people's toddlers and crabbing) but even not going somehow ruined it. I did point out that I couldn't bloody win.
So, this is the second year in a row I haven't had what I would call a proper holiday. (yet both years I have paid towards it)
I did say that it turns out I don't like being on holiday with children. And, yes, that does include dss when he acts like an arse and dp doesn't pick him up on it. (he claimed not to have 'noticed' the things I listed).

So, ref the 'festival' - he said to me Friday night as we got into bed (again, hectoring tone) "So, are you going next weekend or not" (I had not said at any point ever that I wasn't going, I have said several times that I don't like the band and when he plays their music [which is fecking constantly] I have told him I don't like it - he reckons him playing it will persuade me to like it). And I said "I don't know" - we were still barely talking so it didn't seem politic at that point to say no, but I wasn't sure I wanted to say yes.
He went into a paddy, going on about 'well I need to know and I don't want you going along and then whining the whole time and making it miserable of everyone else'. So I said "OK, I won't go" and then he had another paddy about how it was a bit late to decide and who else was going to use the ticket.....

Then we met his friends yesterday, of whom, the man is going to this festival. Man asks me 'so, you're going next week?' - 'no' I say, 'I'm not going, it's not really my type of thing'. dp looks at me with a mock surprise/questioning look which I ignore. Female of the couple says 'oh, x said you were going but I didn't think you would be' (see - she gets it but my own dp doesn't!).

Later we get home and dp says "so, you're not coming next weekend then?", "no", I say, "as I said last night". "Did you?" he says "yes, we had a whole conversation about it and you said you didn't want me to go if I was going to be miserable and that you would invite y instead so I said in that case I wouldn't go".
"I don't remember that" he says.
Some days I think I am going mad.

Anyway, he then started his normal self-pitying whining about how he tried to do something nice....and I made it very clear he had not done this for me, it's his thing,. nothing to do with me, he wanted to go. All he had to do was discuss it with me before he bought the tickets. (He did the same last year and I didn't go last year either, so you'd think he'd learn his lesson wouldn't you?). I then said it clashed with the yoga weekend and I was also cross when he told me he'd bought them because I wanted to go on the yoga thing - he then launched into an attack on me for not telling him about the yoga thing until now. I explained there had been no point telling him about the yoga thing because I found out about it around the time he told me he had booked these tickets and as I was planning to go with him I didn't think it was worth mentioning but that it would have all been so much better if he had just asked me before buying the tickets and anyway, I can't go now because the yoga thing is sold out.

He's driving me mental.

He's gone to pick up a friend's dog it turns out we were looking after. Another thing I knew nothing about. I said "it's not on the calendar" - he swore blue that it was. But it isn't. Not really something worth him arguing over when all you have to do is check.

Bananasinpyjamas1 · 30/08/2015 15:56

Out - sounds like your DP still wants to be with you but won't really listen. Would it help to spell out what would work for you? Like what kind of holiday would be good? If all he hears is what doesn't work maybe turning the tables?

OutToGetYou · 30/08/2015 16:23

I have. He says he would like those types of holidays too but when he sees the price (and I'm not talking about solo chalets on stilts in Bali with private pools and personal maids here, just a standard European walking holiday, for example, or exploring in Morocco) he won't agree to them so we end up crabbing in the rain with other people's kids.

Mind you, two years ago I tried holiday camps in France, thinking dss would be able to do loads of activities and stuff and I could wander round French villages - but dss refused to do any activities, didn't want to be with other kids, just wanted to be in the [incredibly overcrowded] pool and then when his dad got bored of being in the pool with him just whined about how bored he was. And refused to eat anything or go to any restaurants. So we ate pizza and chicken and chips for two weeks. Again.

We went cross country skiing at Easter. dp is braver and fitter than us two, so he went off on his own on the second day (none of us have ever cross country skied by the way, and we didn't have any lessons) as dss and I weren't brave enough to do it - again this was apparently me being in a mood. How come it wasn't him being in a mood? It was him who stomped off on his own, leaving me with dss for most of a day with nothing to do.

OutToGetYou · 30/08/2015 16:51

Oh, yeah and he accused me of seeing someone else (I'm not, never would, the idea is laughable).

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LetTheChipsFall · 30/08/2015 17:42

Oh Out, I'm so sorry you are going through this, sound really shit for you at the moment. The whole thing where your DP is "not remembering" would drive me crazy! No wonder you think you are going mad sometimes.

LetTheChipsFall · 30/08/2015 21:58

Arrrrrrr! Can't even, just arrrrrrrrr!!!!

m1nniedriver · 30/08/2015 22:10

Ooooh, I know its Sunday eve work tomorrow and all that, but pretty please can I join y'all for some Wine Flowers

OutToGetYou · 30/08/2015 22:17

Go ahead - no work for me tomorrow, isn't it a Bank Holiday?

Dp gone to bed.

m1nniedriver · 30/08/2015 22:23

I think it is but not where I work. Over worked, underpaid, undervalued haha Wine cheers Wink

LetTheChipsFall · 30/08/2015 22:56

I'm a SAHM so everyday is a work day. Every day is a Sunday and a Friday night!

My boy, I've just been told is sleeping on the floor tonight, something I'd never allow my dsc to do. I know I'm over reacting but how do you not! Protective instinct is a powerful thing! DH and dsd (who is always looking to sleep in bed with someone, anyone for the last 7 years) are in the double bed. She could have the sofa or he could and have dsd & ds in the bed but no, she will have pushed to sleep with dad. She was in the bed with him last night so it's not like she never gets that. She's his shadow! I know I'm wrong in what I'm saying but it so god damn draining :(

Wdigin2this · 31/08/2015 07:22

OutToGetYou, I think this relationship you're describing sounds like hell...what exactly are you getting out of it?

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LetTheChipsFall · 31/08/2015 10:37

3, i'd tell the mum she has to arrange a babysitter.....like the rest of us!

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OutToGetYou · 31/08/2015 11:05

Yep, that's what happens to me all the time too. Dp reckons as I'm not doing anything anyway......

Widgin, right now I'm not sure what I get from this relationship. He's barely spoken to me all weekend, he's just stomping ground the house, going in and out, not telling me where he's going etc. Then just asking me clipped questions out of the blue without any context so it's not clear what he's on about, then getting cross when I ask what he means.

I am on the verge of telling him it's over. I suspect this is what he wants, though he won't be able to afford to live here on his own so we'll have to sell the house.

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coffeeisnectar · 31/08/2015 12:28

Things have calmed down here. Took dd and dsd shopping the other day, bought dsd 6 New books, 4 of which she wanted and then I suggested a couple more and she agrees they look good so I bought them as well. Late birthday present, first time we've had to take her shopping since her birthday in May.

She's still living on her laptop though but she told her dad that at home her step dad is in the living room watching tv, her mum is in the kitchen on her laptop and she comes in from school and spends the rest of the evening in her room on her laptop. Dp says his ex was like that here, spent whole time away from dsd and all time on her laptop.

It's a shame the weather has been so awful, a few days at the beach would have been good.

I'm mentally drained after this last week though.

LetTheChipsFall · 31/08/2015 12:52

That actually sound really sad coffee. At yours she's just doing what she's always done at home Sad