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Stressed!!

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user1476731628 · 17/02/2024 22:02

Where do I start!!
my SD is 20 lazy manipulative and entitled lives in a caravan at the bottom of her mum’s garden, doesn’t work but keeps getting pets and even though she drives hasn’t been over to see us in 18m my SS is 17 treated like he’s the messiah got kicked out of school rarely answers his dads txts or calls never get a thank you from him.
my husband told his ex she’s to soft on him and she completely cut him off no contact at all so he knows nothing about his education, life etc..
husbands parents seem to of taken over the parenting of his daughter paying for her car insurance getting it repaired etc he’s told them they shouldn’t do it as it’s his responsibility but they just reply “we would do it for all of them” they have 6 grandchildren and they wouldn’t with the others because they have their parents together.
I have 3 daughters 21,19 & 17 they all work have savings and are doing well I have no problems with them other than mother daughter squabbles sometimes.
im stressed because tomorrow I have to visit my in-laws and they literally just sit there singing the praises of my husbands children when they treat him terribly and I find it really difficult not to comment, we argue about the children because it upsets him he rarely sees them and he has no input in their lives whatsoever he can see that both of them are failing in life and being babied and enabled but is powerless to do anything about it, we argue about his parents because they will not listen to him and turn thing’s around to make him feel bad so it’s easier for him to let them carry on. But he sees my kids succeeding with only me and my ex helping them and it angers him.
i have got to the point I am now disengaging from the kids as for 5 years I’ve taken over and I’m tired of being unappreciated I wish I could disengage from the in laws but they’re very family orientated so like get togethers which makes me feel physically sick at times.

im not sure what I’m asking for on this post it may even just be a way for me to get this out there and vent so I’m sorry if you’ve got to the end and are confused 😕

OP posts:
Wallywobbles · 18/02/2024 06:58

Do you really need to go?

MississippiAF · 18/02/2024 07:03

If you really have to go, just say nothing; let it wash over you.

Deep down they know their GC are not thriving, and yours are; but some people like to think they can change reality with words. Let them…

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