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. 😁

Some of these could be manufactured as those signs people put up in their houses as well as greeting cards.

Laugh, Love, (1st) Family

I cant do a fancy card, but how about:

                          Congratulations!
       It's Your (husband's second) Wedding Day!

@FionaMumsnet

Sorry all - didn't quite pick up that this was meant to be a joke! We've reinstated now.

Jokes are meant to be funny...

"Congratulations on your replacement new baby"

The crossing out probably isn't blatant enough for some of these lunatics

Jokes are meant to be funny...

It is funny. Maybe you've missed that this thread is in the spirit of that old adage -
'If you don't laugh, you'll cry.....'

My favourite- why is your Dh not spending time with his children, They are there to see him.
Totally ignores family dynamics and life, you know sometimes he has something to do and so I look after the children, as I would expect him to do. It's what decent human beings do.
But just to make sure you never win, if you say that you are stepping out of the game and letting Dh look after his children alone all weekend then you are an uncaring selfish biaatch.

jokes are meant to be funny

Yes they are. I’ve properly laughed out loud at some of these. The part that isn’t funny (I agree) is how true they actually are.

jokes are meant to be funny

The ones that get me are the ones that are literally direct quotes from Mumsnet threads.

From real life:

How dare you go on holiday without your DSC... while the DSC are on holiday?

I am saving some of these to post when the SM haters crawl out from their rocks.

@KumquatSalad thank you for this thread. Inspired! Has cheered me up.

Honestly love this thread.
The one about always being the "new girlfriend" made me laugh so hard.

Been with DH for 10 years and he has 2 DC (yes I must hate them because I didn't call them my DSC🙄) from before we met with different mums.

First mum was with him for 4 years, they lived together and he was fully involved in the pregnancy, birth and raising of DSS.
Second mum had a couple of dates and a shag in a motorway layby, adamantly refused that he was the father of DSD and blocked him for asking, then contacted him a year later leaving a voice message saying that she had discovered he was the father Father after all and that he didn't need to have anything to do with the child because she was going to go to CSA and set up child support and only ever really allows him contact when it suits her often changing her mind 5 minutes before pick up when it's a 4 hour round trip to pick DSD up. Has had multiple bfs who have all been moved in and DSD has been told to call them step dad within a couple of months in the decade that I have been with DH.

Now Ladies guess which mother refers to me as "The New Girlfriend"

Sorry for the long post. It felt so good to vent that!

On the new girlfriend theme...

@DecemberSun

I am saving some of these to post when the SM haters crawl out from their rocks.

Oh definitely. It’s an opportunity to sell to our core market. 😂

Maybe responding with cards might help them to twig that they are just not helpful.

Maybe this one could help anyone that comes across a thread where the SM is pregnant or has a newborn.

“At least you got your baby” I remember that one!

“At least you got your baby” I remember that one!

I swear some variation of that is said on any thread where a step parent has a child with their partner.

Sorry it's so small, it was hard finding one with enough space for the oh so subtle suggestion that their child shouldn't exist!

I always find that the whole “your child shouldn’t exist” brings out some very bitchy and dark thoughts about how I could argue the DSC, as children of a failed relationship, are the ones who shouldn’t exist. That would be a horrendous thing to say so I can’t see why it’s acceptable to suggest that childcare of a SM shouldn’t exist? All just innocent kids at the end of the day

@Youseethethingis

I always think exactly the same thing!

I've seen variants of this too many times:

@MyCatHatesEverybody

I've seen variants of this too many times:

I done this one and I got this response "she's their mother you fucking rude cow"

I always find that the whole “your child shouldn’t exist” brings out some very bitchy and dark thoughts about how I could argue the DSC, as children of a failed relationship, are the ones who shouldn’t exist. That would be a horrendous thing to say so I can’t see why it’s acceptable to suggest that childcare of a SM shouldn’t exist? All just innocent kids at the end of the day

Exactly! I hate the way some posters on here talk about a stepmum’s children. Some things I’ve seen are hideous. Things like they shouldn’t exist, or they ask why the stepmum chose to have their children.

And yes, it does bring out some dark thoughts due to the hypocrisy of it. But you don’t say them do you? And to be honest you wouldn’t even think them if people weren’t thinking them about second children.
No family is absolutely perfect, so why are some children seen as having the right to exist and others not? They’re all innocent like you say.

My ex’s ex wife blatantly told me I was stupid when I was pregnant with my 4th baby. Whether she agreed with my reproductive choices or not, my dd has always been a much wanted and loved child and she spoke about her with such disdain when I was 21 weeks pregnant with a much wanted baby.
She then did it again when dd was about 4 months old. Telling me my children shouldn’t exist. I came THAT close to saying hers shouldn’t too, but instead I just told her to fuck off and stop talking about MY children like that. I think that opened another can of worms but she asked for it she really did.

But if I’d have spoken about her child like they shouldn’t exist then she would never have let it drop and told anyone she could about it. Probably plaster it all over Facebook etc... But she thought she had the right to say it it me about mine! And the sad thing is people would agree with her as it’s more normalised to say things about children of second families. Mums and children of first families are always given heaps of sympathy. Some mums of first children really think they have the god given right to say whatever they want.

Sorry, rant over.

She sounds utterly awful @funinthesun19. Truly dire. It is all, as a PP said upthread, ‘all children are equal, but stepchildren are more equal than others’. That general sentiment permeates many of the comments made on threads by SMs.

@OohImBlindedByTheLights oh the irony of calling you rude!

@funinthesun19 The attitude you describe towards second families and their children is disgraceful isn’t it. Imagine if all this “first in time” nonsense as per kumquat’s card in her OP was consistently applied elsewhere. By rights every relationship anyone has ever had after their very first one should be viewed with disdain because someone else went there before you.

Or maybe it should be applied to anyone who’s a younger sibling in any kind of family set up... yeah I see that going down well.

You know. There should also be a card set for the NR fathers and some of the corkers they come out with too!

She could be so nasty at times. She’s since apologised for the things she said, and says she doesn’t think before she speaks. Even if she didn’t say it she’d be thinking it, so I took her apology gracefully with a pinch of salt