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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm very sorry for your loss.

You titled this post "tough situation with stepdaughter," but this isn't really about your stepdaughter at all. Have you tried individual therapy to work through some of your feelings about all of this? [/quote]

Thanks - I haven't tried individual therapy. I know I should. Can I just say though, that it really has been a tough situation with her. I've been living with someone who calls me a bitch, who dumps my clean laundry on the floor, who  gives elaborate christmas gifts to her father in front of me and gives me nothing - all i'm saying is that it's tough to live with someone, even if she's a teenager and shouldn't be held to an adult's standards of decency - and then just be all smiles and sunshine when she realizes you're no longer going to have a child? [/quote]

Her DH should be all over her actual behavior. Dump the laundry on the floor with no consequences? Uh uh. She can be grumpy and be in a bad mood, but she doesn't get to behave like a gorilla. You do need to talk to DH about it - but I would make sure to limit the conversations to ONLY her actions, not her intentions or motivations.[/quote]

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