Evil Stepmum’s Greetings Card Collection

[KumquatSalad]

Here on stepparenting, we are developing an exciting new range of greetings cards to help express your feelings to the evil stepmother in your life.

Come share your designs with us. There’s a large untapped market out there to be captured. 😁

Evening all! There’s a thread on Aibu just now and the posters DH is trying to force the OP to allow her DSD to be present when she gives birth.
“It sounds like you dislike her” and “ you can’t exclude her if your DD will be there” and “he’s entitled to have who he wants there” have all been posted.
My mind is blown by literally the Mother of All Cards”.

@Youseethethingis just finished reading thread! can't believe the responses! Loved the poster who said if her daughter was there, DH should have his daughter there!
Its not a fuckin competition! and what if his son wants to attend??

I need to step away, I’m so angry at all the brainless idiotic “step child must come first” bull crap. It really is the limit.

@Youseethethingis I know. Poor OP.

I’ve just been reading that thread too. Just when you think the attitudes towards stepmums couldn’t be any worse.

Now a stepmum can’t even give birth without being told, “It’s not all about you...”
The baby is coming out of HER vagina so it’s got everything to do with her.

Just reading that thread with mouth wide open. Genuinely shocked by some comments on there, ridiculous!

I'm far too invested in that thread but can't shake the feeling of being in Gilead reading it.

I think i need an MN detox after that thread. These people walk among us...

So true! Just glad that there are posters out there that challenge some of these crazy views. Definitely feeling the SM support

No longer a step mum, but this thread has made be laugh and cry in equal measure.
There isn’t an instruction manual for it and every family is different , just a load of judgement and condemnation ( especially on here) . Would never put myself through that again.

Christ... these would be funny, had I not actually heard the sentiment over and over and over and over and...

Coming to this late in the day, but OMG I just had to say I love these! So spot on.

My DSD is an adult now, but I had to contend with most of these sentiments thinly disguised at one time or another when she was younger. Some of them actually expressed by DH rather than his ex. I love my DSD but OMG am I glad those days are over, our marriage almost didn't survive.

Ooh. This thread is alive again!

One that was very pertinent for me back in the day.

And another. Wow, this is cathartic.

@KumquatSalad got few for you

Were you the other women ? Because that's always appropriate to say regardless if you got together 5 years after the first marriage ended.

Be kind to everyone, oh your a step mum no not you you don't deserve emotions .

Your step mum which means your to treat them as your own, but obviously never ever think of them as your own as that's a boundary.

If your uterus isn't golden, then your opinions invalid

[quote candlelightsatdawn]@KumquatSalad got few for you

Were you the other women ? Because that's always appropriate to say regardless if you got together 5 years after the first marriage ended.

Be kind to everyone, oh your a step mum no not you you don't deserve emotions .

Your step mum which means your to treat them as your own, but obviously never ever think of them as your own as that's a boundary.

If your uterus isn't golden, then your opinions invalid

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I used to hate the term “golden uterus” until I met my DH and became an emotional punching bag for his ex. I used to think it was as shitty as “you’re hysterical” or “the printer needs more paper”… but I’m starting to rethink my perspective on the GU thing…

Still an uppity arsehole about the printer mind.

And with that in mind, here’s something my DSS said to me a few months ago. I was so shocked, he got away with not finishing his dinner.

My favourite bit about this thread (aswell as the cards obviously!) is the idiots coming on here and SM bashing because they're upset to see the bullsh1t that SMs have to put up with being turned on its head.

"That's vile"...
Yes. Yes it is. Its a real MN quote!
Now f3ck off

I saw something on here the other day like

"Not only are you a shit step mum, you are also a shit wife" because a step mum was considering saying no to making a 3 hour round trip that the ex couldn't be bothered to.

Such a beautiful sentiment.

I was told yesterday by DSS of 12, that because I'm 'only dad's girlfriend who lives here' (been 2 years now) that he only calls me stepmum as it's easier on the tongue than 'dad's girlfriend who lives with us'
And he gives this as the reason why he doesn't listen to me... 😂🙈😂🙈 kill me now dear lord..

@Maximum71

I was told yesterday by DSS of 12, that because I'm 'only dad's girlfriend who lives here' (been 2 years now) that he only calls me stepmum as it's easier on the tongue than 'dad's girlfriend who lives with us' And he gives this as the reason why he doesn't listen to me... 😂🙈😂🙈 kill me now dear lord..

I’m an accepted step mum, but I got told last week “hopefully you’ll die before daddy and then mummy says we’ll get your money”

Um. Thanks darling. More ice cream?

"Thank You for being the ONLY person to drop everything and look after our dad when he had covid (even though we're separated/reconciling) we'll speak nicely to you that week, and pretend you don't exist as soon as he's better" 👍🏻👍🏻

There needs to be a card for when the entitled ex wife role models entitlement to her children to the level where the entitled child calls out the stepmum on social media for not being up to scratch vs the mum who ACTUALLY gave birth to her. True story.

The #narcissist tag that was attached to the social media post still makes me laugh to this day. I'm not sure who it was aimed at to be fair.