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The most ridiculous/hilarious/ludicrous thing you've read here?

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AbigTurtlesTail · 24/02/2024 19:39

I'll go first...

An OP being told she shouldn't have a phone background picture of only her children because it may make her stepchildren feel excluded

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LiveLaughCryalot · 02/04/2024 08:13

My own experience: I’m expected to split my child’s savings account when they’re adults if SS mother hasn’t saved the same amount for him as I save for my child!
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've read on here, whoever expects that of you, I hope you tell them to fuck off.

I often find myself shaking my head at stepmothers who put their husband and his children before her own. You see it time and time again. They wont take their children on holiday, they cant have days out with their kids, they can't treat their kids to ANYTHING, they have somehow been convinced that they any decisions they make regarding their own kids need to be okay'd by their husband and his ex. They think nothing about putting their own dc's needs at the bottom of the pile to appease a man and his kids, who don't give a shit.
It is unforgivable to take from your own children to give to someone else's and far too many women are willing to do that. Before anyone comes at me, its the same story all over this board, so desperate to be in a relationship they convince themselves that their own kids needs mean nothing. That's what drives me mad on here.

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The best bit is they will jolly well let you know all about how good and moral they are. Everyone else just shouldn't have got into a relationship with a man with children if they weren't willing to do the right thing and prioritise those children every time and in every situation.
Personally, I think these women should just not have had their own kids if they couldn't prioritise them. Poor kids whose own mother doesn't even have their back.

Toooldtoworry · 02/04/2024 14:50

What parent in their right mind would prioritise their step children over their own financially.

Dollyparton3 · 02/04/2024 19:22

I'm rather enjoying the thread about sole beneficiaries not sharing more, written by a poster who is worried about her step mum inheriting presumable the joint wealth and not sharing it before she's lived out the rest of her life.

AnneLovesGilbert · 02/04/2024 21:54

Dollyparton3 · 02/04/2024 19:22

I'm rather enjoying the thread about sole beneficiaries not sharing more, written by a poster who is worried about her step mum inheriting presumable the joint wealth and not sharing it before she's lived out the rest of her life.

She’s a step mum too.

SheilaFentiman · 03/04/2024 07:48

When the OP is repeatedly asked if she was the OW, as a way of excusing any bad behaviour by XW or DSCs. Especially if her first post, or an early answer to the OW question, makes it very clear she came along well after the separation.

GRR. Read the thread, people!

Hoplolly · 03/04/2024 09:21

Oh @SheilaFentiman If you're a stepmum you have to have been the OW. Men aren't capable of leaving just because they want to!

This is always wheeled out, I think in part because there are a lot of women who want something other than themselves to blame for their breakdown of their marriage.

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