I Am a Stepmother

Ok, dear people, I have a question for you! For the past two years I've been getting my SD off the bus 2-3 days a week after school. I then help her with reading, spelling, math, and piano lessons. Invariably, about once a month there...

Today was a shocker, my Sd is 14 and I've been with dad for 8 years married for 5 we have a 6 month old son.
Today was the usual, untill she turned. She had used my baby bottle brush to clean her shoes !! To cut a long story short, I...

I don't know any little girls who dream of becoming stepmothers.  I have regrets of my past but I still look forward to the future as hopefully as I can muster.  Being a stepmom for over 5 years has been both a...

My husband married his "high school sweetheart" at 18, and I say that lightly as they were on and off for 2 years. During one of those off periods she got pregnant by someone else but he took her back an assumed the role of father of...

I know this is long but I need some advice. My story starts out with me, a young single mom and two time cancer survivor.  I eventually met my knight in shining armor in a man named Paul.  A sweet, giving man who would...

I am a new step mom. at first my sd was super sweet and cute. I claim her ass my own when asked how many kids I have. the problem is her dad..... he has guilt issues for not being there like he should have been and...

I met my husband 5 years ago we have been married for 3 years he came with baggage from his past as I did also, I have 2 children from my previouse marriage, and have done my upmost for my children to accept him as a stepdad, they love...

I think I've made up my mind about something, but I want some advice.

Most of you know the story about my step-daughter. I'll summarize:

Her mother was horribly unfit. We got custody of her when she was four.

I raised her...

I love EP....I do, but then you run into some of the most down right mean people. I had I posted under the section some people just shouldn't have children... anyways I had posted a story about my experience. My step child was abused by...

I've been married to my husband for ten years now, and he has two children (a boy and a girl, aged 24 and 20) and i have a boy aged 20 from our previous marriages. We both have a daughter who is 8.
I try as much as i can to treat my...

Newly engaged, my future husband's daughter's mother dies! Suddenly at the age of 39! Joy, his then 4 yr old had to come to live with us here in LA- from the BVI! I remember tripa to the beach and holding Joy after her day of...

When I met my husband he had a little girl who was only eighteen months at the time that was eight years ago.  She has always lived with us.  Her mother was a drug addict and a thief anything else she could do. She never had time...

With all of the trauma, abuse and adversities I have experienced in my short life, parenting takes the cake.

I am a whopping 24-year-old helping my soulmate raise his 14-year-old daughter. Despite the common "blended family...

I am currently in a position where my husband's daughter of six years may be coming to live with us. We have no children of our own, the daughter is coming to us from a neglectful situation (her biological mother is now in jail), and I...

Warning: Extreme Rage Release Area

Grrr... my heart still hurts. Mommy finally called- it's only been, what? Six months since my babies last heard their bio-mother's voice? Why bother? Why even pick up the stupid cell phone that...

I have been in the childrens life for about 10 years now. I don't think I could have loved them more if they had been my own.
But I find that no matter what I have done for my stepdaughter I will always be the evil one.
And I am heart...

I married for the third time in my life in 2005 to a widower with two boys. I had never wanted kids of my own, but knew if I ever had any, I'd want boys. I had been married twice before and had no idea I would walk down the aisle again...

I've been with my husband a little over a year and he gave me a beautiful four year old step daughter. Everyone in my family absolutely love her and she has taken to all them very quickly.

The problem is my husband's first wife hates...

Since I have met my husband I have treated his daughter just like I would my own. I think that's mainly because there is a chance I will never have kids of my own, so there for my step daughter could be the only glimpse of motherhood I...

My stepmom married my Dad when I was pretty young. My earliest memory of my stepmother was booby-trapping a door to make something fall on her head. I was a MEAN, spoiled little boy. When I was a teenager, I gave my stepmom attitude...