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Help! Struggling with DSD
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I don't like my stepdaughter.
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Too many compromises?
17
Feel like I am not coping very well
8
Managing the 'control' his ex has over our life...
27
Partners daughters birthday party...
50
Close to breaking point, is it fixable?
24
Parental attachment disorder
9
difficult 15 yrs old dsd......
5
The calm
2
Have your stepkids met your parents?
13
How do you answer the question - "Who do you love the most?"
11
Spending/money - non resident v resident children
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going away when DSS is potentially here for a week
6
Christmas traditions with step kids
6
Help me compromise with contact
10
First xmas with step-father
7
What sort of relationship do you have with your DPs ex?
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worried about DSS
16
parental responsibility for ex's new b/f
20
AIBU to sympathise with absent fathers?
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Money issues, are we being mean?
38
Spousification - how does this affect the child
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Behavioural problems with stepson & punishment
21
My partners child
6
Step child/ teenage relationship with step mum
5
Does anyone know of a Step Parent Support Group or counsellor?
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Buying cards and presents on behalf of stepchildren
8
How old were your step children when you met them?
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Children and cars (possibly trivial!)
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Issues with partner's parenting
9
Moving in with DP, any words of wisdom
13
DP's contact with his children
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Jealousy between step kids-anyone!?
20
Has anyone experience of changing a DC's surname when NRP is absent?
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Nits
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Where to go from here?
5
Christmas Access - apologies its a long one :(
12
Holidays and Maintenance / new baby and money
27
Meeting partners children from prev relationship
5
Alienation
9
Teenage issues
3
DSS (9) and my relationship (or lack of) - LONG
23
Stepmothering doesn't stop.
4
I feel 'mothered out' with my own children ... don't have energy for stepmothering
5
Adult step children
21
At my wits end...
33
My teenage son responsible for the end of my relationship...really?!?!?!
35
concerned
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