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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, another thread where people are entitled to feelings but not their behavior.

We teach this to our minor children...life isn't fair sometimes but that doesn't make it okay to blame, abuse, and be otherwise inconsiderate to other people.

Stepdaughter needs to intervene when her son is bullying, not permit her kids to tear up OP and DH's house, and she needs to pitch in because everyone is sick and that's what adults do. 
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And now knowing the dynamics, she needs to spend next Christmas ar her house, perhaps hosting her siblings, and accepting the sucky reality that Dad/Granddad can’t join because he had to focus on Family #2.

At least she was game to try it once.  [/quote]

SD is a guest in someone's house. If she can't be civil than she can't be there over the holidays. This is not an adolescent thirteen year old girl- she is a 29 year old woman. Yes, her dad is going to spend Christmas with his wife and their toddler. It's the SD who is driving the wedge, not the stepmom. I think the sucky reality is when the stepmom drives the separation, but that's not the case here.

If SD finds she simply cannot bear this new reality, she needs to make her own traditions- but that is her choice, not the way that Dad and stepmom want things to be. [/quote]

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