Am I just being petty? (Sharing Subscriptions etc)

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We pay for Netflix. The DSC wants to have the log on so they can watch it at mums. Fair enough I guess but then I thought no hang on.. we pay for that and mum is blatantly going to watch it. Also I don't want to go to watch something and be like oh no now I have to ask DH to text DSC to ask them to log off. Also they can see what I've been watching and it makes me feel a bit like privacy being invaded knowing mum can see all the dull documentaries I like to watch.

But then part of me feels like I'm just being petty.

What do all you other step families do with subscription services like netflix?

In my experience of the step family board some people really want to batle with everything when sometimes its better for all not to

Since you know this so well and you practice what you preach why on earth have you been battling so hard about Netflix on here ? Your words and your actions don't marry up.

Honestly I think you need to have a look at yourself and how you argue effectively because if you ever used the same shaming language to your kids as you have used here, I suspect your house wasn't a happy one for them and I feel sorry for them.

Ps
Bulb hasn’t gone under!!

@lentilsforever I think you're being a but disingenuous there. It was very clear what the other poster meant and her intentions were clearly not innocent.

Disagree

It’s simply saying some on the step mother boards will fight everything.

No name calling, no shaming, just that some should pick their battles

I agree.

My beloved sister and SIL are step mothers. Wonderful ones. That’s not to say that life is perfect. Just as it isn’t in any family dynamic. But SOME of the threads posted on the step parent board really are petty and must be so shite for the children involved

I didn’t search her!!

I had posted my response to her post on that very threads a couple of weeks ago!!

It’s that knife edge scenario again!

Not stalking. Remembered you from a thread of quoted you on!

Reminder to me to name change more regularly if people are going to be this stalkery

I am still baffled though
Because you said you worked for an energy company and that bulb had gone under
But I’m with bulb
And… well, no word they’ve gone under to me!

@lentilsforever what’s that got to do with the op of this thread?

Leave Candles alone. She's well liked around here and you're just being a bully @lentilsforever

@lentilsforever sure you didn't, it just magically by coincidence got posted by you from a completely different board for no reason a post that isn't even recent. That's incredibly weird behaviour in my books but we can agree to disagree.

The previous poster who I responded to and you quoted my response , has repeatedly been using fairly shaming/bulling language to the OP on here and it's a reasonable assumption that if you think it's ok to speak in a certain way to people on the internet, you will also do this in real life. Which applies to you actually as well which is why I assume my post annoyed you so much you inserted yourself into a comment that wasn't even at you.

As I said, maybe you have your reasons but since you will have seen my previous historical posts - I'm from a blended family and I found that it's the adults that have more issues around these things than the kids. Kids do not bloody care about something as small as Netflix . No one will be mentally scarred.

There have been many posters who have actually said another SM actions aren't ok including myself on other posts which you would have seen 😩 situations where it actually wasn't ok and was shit for the kids. This is not one of them.

I was the second to last poster OP

It comes up on threads i am on

As I say… knife edge!

@Usermane123 I think lentils is trying to prove she hasn't stalked my history function and thinks sharing it will help prove her case she hasn't been 😩😩

She keeps talking of a knifes edge which I'm assuming is her hinting that she's not feeling well that or the fact one of my other posts I commented on re being pregnant and potentially losing the baby or baby being critically ill and ex drama and I said I was on knifes edge or something similar because you know, to have a dig 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don't know abs frankly this thread has turned really bizarre really quick.

Over Netflix 🤣 only on mn

I am genuinely interested re your bulb statement though!

Oh don’t be daft.

I had no idea you were pregnant.

I was with bulb. You said bulb had gone under. I quoted you. Penultimate poster. Shoes up on my threads!

I said I think you’re on a knife edge because that reaction to that poster… waffling on about how she obviously doesn’t have a happy home life and feeling sorry for her children

Struck me as nasty and utterly OTT

@lentilsforever

Oh don’t be daft.

I had no idea you were pregnant.

I was with bulb. You said bulb had gone under. I quoted you. Penultimate poster. Shoes up on my threads!

Hun you were on the thread about my baby being poorly and giving me hassle there too. Shall we not.

Why are you stalking candles over to other threads @lentilsforever? It’s very weird.

I’ll bow out, hide the thread so won’t be tempted to come back!

I have no place on a step mum board
I’m not a step mother.
I have a very good relationship with my ex
My children and happy and never stuck in the middle of the ghastly scenarios I see played out on this thread.

@Usermane123 because she's being who she is.

She's allowed to be but giving her oxygen just seems to be fuelling her fire. As a pp said maybe just ignore her, I don't want to add to her issues

God some of the posts on here are simply vile. And it's always the same posters who are antagonistic and unkind.

OP, I know you've resolved it but I don't think you're unreasonable. I know a lot of posters have pointed out how little £ it is and I echo others who say, if the amount is so small, the mother can sort it out and pay for it.