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[quote=Anonymous]My stepkid is hard to love, but I feel for them. For a while I tried to make a difference in their lives, be a trusted adult who doesn't try to parent but rather serve as back up. But got kind of burned in the past few years. I still have empathy but love is harder to find. They have emotional and psychological problems that run deep and that we have little to no control over, despite many many efforts to change their course. If I am being honest, I would not have married their parent if I knew then what I know now, that it would be this hard, and that we would be supporting a full grown adult for the foreseeable future at the expense of our possible retirement and other children's college/future possibilities. Yet I also respect spouse's need as a parent to try to do everything to help their kid, as I know is right. So, its tough. there's empathy, hope but I have also had to let go of responsibiity, trying to intervene, change or help. [/quote]
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