please any advice, please

Heather - posted on 10/26/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )

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this weekend was so messed up. my step kids mom came to the door and demanded to speak to their father with out me, she didn't know that i was right beside the door and was telling him all this horrible stuff that the kids were saying about me. i admit i lost it. her and i got into a major fight. i made her come into the house and i called the kids (7 and 9) down from their room. they told her that i punish them all the time. that i make them clean up dog poop all the time that i make them do everything around the house. that my daughter from a pervious relationship has to do nothing. that i ask them 20 questions about them and their mom and i scream at them all the time. they tried to lie their way out of everything, but couldn't because their bm, father and i were all right there! they both started crying, their father and i had no sympathy for them, but their mom was cuddling them, telling them that it's ok that they weren't in trouble. telling their father and i (in front of them the whole time) that they hate me that they tell her all the time that they don't want to come over, that they have been through so much, their confused, on and on.....



by this time i am livid. i asked them what questions i asked them all the time, my ss said you ask all the time why i want to go home, i said yeah and what else...nothing he says. their mother said that she thinks that its inappropiate that i tell my ss that he hurts his fathers feelings. my husband said why its true. he never wants to come over and he always ask to go home early, it does hurt my feelings. she tried to defend him, i said your giving him excuses, his father and him go to the movies together by themselves, they stay up late watching tv, he takes him to football practice every saturday and gets him breakfast...oh she says she didn't know any of that..... but still she says he doesn't like you!

let me say that i never knew that my sd, 9, felt this way about anything, her and i were getting along great, i knew my ss had issues with me.



i went on to ask her, they never say that their dad yells more then i do, that i yell at them when the purposly wake up their brother (5 months) and sister (22 months). that i yell when my ss calls his sister a bitch, when he refuses to help the girls put away dishes form the dishwasher because it's girls work. their father and i have been together for so long and his father has never ever said anything to that effect, he daoes laundry, dishes, helps with the babies and everything. i know that he is getting this from his bm father.



i went on say that it was their dad that discplined them not me, she said that it was me not him, my husband started laughing at this point, because he has spanked them and i don't... the bm just looked at us. my husband told her that it was me that wants to take them to go get pumpkins, that it's me that wants to take them on family vactions. that all the fun stuff that we do is because i arranged it.



this was all about me and how horrible i am. she finally left after the my sk admitted they lied, but once again they didn't because they don't like me and they don't want me around. i know that their just kids, but i am furious with them. after she left i lost it again. i told them that i work 5-6 days a week, sometimes doubles to make sure that they have things, like the halloween costums that i bought them, the cable tv that they have in their bedroom everything they have is because of me......

my husbands paychecks cover the car payments and insurance, plus the rent, plus child support that she spends on concerts, tattoos and then tells the kids that they have no money.

i pay for everything else. i wouldn't have to work as hard if i left those two out of everything and i did tell this.



i work so that they have family memories and they hate me!?!?!?!



i know for a fact that their mom told them that if i left, that mommy and daddy woould get back together. my husband has sat them down more times then i can count and told them no matter what they wern't getting back together, that he didn't love their mom.



again i know that their just kids and im acting like one, but i feel like they threw me under the bus.

i don't know what to do anymore or what to say to them because they just go home and make up stories, their mom believes them. she hates me as much as they do.

and i feel bad for my husband, he has to feel torn, even though he defends me and supports me.



any advice please!!

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Céline - posted on 10/27/2009

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I how you feel.....i had problems like that with my own son...my step kids were always AWESOME with me. My son did the same with me and my new husband and my son did this with his BF and his GF. He tried to split us up because he wanted his real parents to be together again. For months and months my son did the exact same things that your SC are doing. My husband was going insane and was at the edge of leaving cause he was not able to take it anymore. until one day while we were "grilling him" once again about something he lied about to his father...my son just blurted out he was doing all this on purpous because he was jealous of all of us. We were all happy but he was not feeling happy so he wanted to split everyone up so he can have his family back so HE can be happy. After all this came to the open...it was easier to handle and we were able to dissect what he was doing and why. Now he is ok...i guess he just had to get it out in the open to make things easier.
Once you figure out WHY your step kids are doing what they are doing...the faster you will be able to rectify what is going on. Once thing that came to me while reading your post was that dad paid child support and mom was going out and stuff..wasting the money on her instead of the kids. Well...i think the kids see all that and they know YOU are the good mom and that scares the crap out of them because they do not want to see their mom in a bad way. To children usually...mom and dad's are the best thing to walk this earth. Now if they see that the BM is not acting like the good mom they see in you....they may tend to be confused. Maybe they are afraid of loving you because they will feel they will betray BM. They may think if we like the SM better than the real mom...they are bad cause it is not suppose to be that way. I think they really love you but are just affraid of showing it because they know it will hurt the BM or they feel it should not be normal to love someone else as their mom but their real mom.

Just a though. :)

Donna - posted on 10/27/2009

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Hi Heather,

I am the step mother of two grown girls age 31 & 28. When I met their father they were 4 and 1. It was a long tough journey and I had very little support. I was told I was too controlling, yet I was the one with the girls most of the time. I was continually underminded and put in my place, yet I was the one who did most everything for them. Step parenting is a thankless position to be in. Really, if the adults in the situation do not agree on co-parenting and not draging the children into the situation, it creates a very unstable lifestyle and the kids suffer the most.

I have been were you are now. Maybe not exactly, but I had to deal with 2 ex's because the girls have different mothers. That made the challenges even more difficult. If one was doing ok, the other was screwing up. Niether of them could, or would create a stable home invironment for their daughters. My husband got custody of the younger daughter when she was 2 and I raised her. The older daughter was basically used as a pawn by her mother.

I know it is very, very hard, but please remember that these children are going through a terrible time. The worst thing that you can do is put down their mother to them. Someday they will be old enought to have an adult conversation with you about what took place when they were children, but right now, they are torn between two people they love very much. Sadly, sometimes the mother/child bond is so strong, that they will defend their mother no matter what she does. That does not always seem the case when it comes to fathers. I suggest counseling if you can get some for your self and/or your family. God Bless You for being a Step MOM who cares.

Heather - posted on 10/26/2009

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thank you so much nora, i was shaking too, lol!

Nora - posted on 10/26/2009

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Omg you poor thing!! I know how you feel. I have a four year old stepson. Last time he came to visit for 3 weeks, I took care of him the whole time because his dad works really long hours. I took him to the pool, took him to McDonalds, got him a daycare membership at the gym I go to, took him pretty much everywhere I went like to visit my parents, etc, let him watch cartoons, made him special dinners because he usually refused to eat what I cooked, gave him a bath and tucked him in every night, stayed up with him while he was sick, and even wiped his butt. We had to drive 20 hours round trip from Georgia to Missouri to take him back to his mom. The whole time at my house, he wants to cuddle me while we watch movies and follow me around everywhere. As soon as he saw his mom, he completely disregarded me and didn't even hug me bye or tell me goodbye. It wasn't five minutes after we left that we got a text message from the BM saying that my SS told her that all I do is yell all the time just at him and that his dad pinches him all over his back. I think the kids understand that there is tension between their mom's side and their dad's side of the family so they are trying to use that to their advantage. They know if they say these things they will get attention from their BM and maybe even their dad. Don't let them. Just stand your ground. Next time she has anything to say, just simply reply "that's not true," and don't stoop to her level no matter what she says. If the SKs see they are not getting attention for lying and making a scene, they will stop. Hope this helps. I know you really upset. I know I was like shaking enraged lol.