Step parents
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Anonymous
| How do you feel about your kids’ step-parents? Do you like them? Do you communicate with them? Is it awkward between you two? |
Anonymous
| I do not communicate with the other parent but it does help that the kids are 22 and 20. My child lives with his stepparent and my ex does not communicate with my DH. No one has a bad relationship, just good boundaries. |
Anonymous
| It's fine. Not awkward but I prefer to keep it a more professional relationship rather than being super buddy-buddy.like vacationing together. I think a lot of that is fake, and doesn't serve people as well when serious problems or disagreements arise. |
Anonymous
| They have never met her or spoken with her. She does not want their dad to have any time or conversation with them. She had two kids, partial custody, and wants his attention and money to go to them. It’s an absolute tragedy. |
Anonymous
| I really, really like my son’s step-mom. She came into the picture when he was 15 and she has been very good to him. I like her a whole lot better than my XH. We don’t communicate at all, but our son is 23 and launched. |
Anonymous
Step up and do what's right for your kids, OP. It isn't all about you in this instance. |
Anonymous
Such a common one. |
Anonymous
| You mean the Ap who made my spouses life miserable and stole the kids while neglecting their own? |
Anonymous
| Typically see on DCUM that stepdads are tolerated or even liked and stepmoms are Disney stereotype. |
Anonymous
Dcum hates dads and puts moms on a pedestal. |
Anonymous
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I don't communicate directly with her. My ex has had many women play step Mom over the years unfortunately.
She's better than the previous women, but according to my teenager she'll initiate a dispute with him to then encourage his Dad to gang up on him too. He's not a fan of that dynamic. That said, he's a teenager. So I counsel him to just deal with it. He needs them to pay for college. |
Anonymous
| I don’t see her as a stepmom, she has no contact with kids and only met them once. She doesn’t like my ex to talk to them or see them. It’s tragic. He is equivalent blame for allowing her to influence him. |
Anonymous
Yes. My kids' stepmom is awesome. Not awkward. Yes we communicate. I almost feel bad for her sometimes married to my ex but they seem very happy. |
Anonymous
So according to DCUM the pedestal order goes moms then stepdads then dads then stepmoms? |
Anonymous
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"They have never met her or spoken with her. She does not want their dad to have any time or conversation with them. She had two kids, partial custody, and wants his attention and money to go to them. It’s an absolute tragedy."
"I don’t see her as a stepmom, she has no contact with kids and only met them once. She doesn’t like my ex to talk to them or see them. It’s tragic. He is equivalent blame for allowing her to influence him." This is such blatant stereotyping/bigotry of stepMOTHERS (and sockpuppeting) by supposedly 2 different posters. How is it possible that a person who has never met kids or spoken to them yet they KNOW she is behind their father's lack of communication? Do you mean to say that the father told his own kids, "Hey, I will not speak with you, spend time with you or spend money on you because STEPMOM will not let me!" Absolute B.S. and nothing more than stirring up the bigotry pot against stepmothers with nonsensical examples. |