my god

[wendykh]

this woman sounds like the whiniest bitch I've ever met.

She's complaining "omg being a stepmom is soooooo the awful!" which I might sympmathize with... except she had a kid prior to meeting Mr Wonderful too.

So I'm not really getting her whine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1054825/Stepmum-v-stepdaughters-A-woman-reveals-jealousy-partners-children-driven-wedge-them.html

Grow up lady.

Sorry but this woman really just chapped my ass.

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[primaflora.livejournal.com]

OMFG.

She doesn't want to be remembered as the evil stepmother and she spews this in a newspaper?

She's a moron.

[primaflora.livejournal.com]

And the dad is a right fucking prize as well. It's a prescription for dysfunctional families, all that crap about why can't she just looooooooove my older kids like I love the baby who I live with?

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

I know and yk, I was totally thinking of some of my good online friends I know like one who might have yk inherited say, a daughter from their husband's first marriage and then later went on to say, have three boys with said husband and lots of struggles with said boys and said daughter... and while never making it sound like it was all crumpets and tea I never got the impression from my buddy that it was something worth going to the Daily Mail over. I mean wtf.

[anna-lise-a.livejournal.com]

Well that's the Daily Mail for you; they specialise in articles like this - ie articles designed to inspire righteous outrage.

[primaflora.livejournal.com]

You mean it isn't a quality newspaper! Oh the horror. ;)

They are still morons for participating in the interview eh? I know I have spewed over my stepfamily stuff over the years but I think it would take a lot of skill to find it.

[anna-lise-a.livejournal.com]

It's a newspaper whose dream article would be about a paedophile immigrant, since that would combine its two favourite rants. It thrives on hate. And yes, you'd have to be pretty stupid to be interviewed by it.

[marybethorama.livejournal.com]

a paedophile immigrant....

hahahahhahahahahaha

[anna-lise-a.livejournal.com]

and the classic joke is -
Q: how do you confuse a Daily Mail reader?
A:Tell them an asylum seeker has killed a paedophile.

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

paedophile muslim immigrant, natch ;-)

[marybethorama.livejournal.com]

You see people like this all the time on Mothering.com

It makes me feel so sorry for the kids.

It's not just stepkids though. Some mothers act that way about their kids from their previous relationship. It's like now they have a baby, they are no longer interested in parenting their older kid or they are resentful.

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

You know what, I have seen that too. I think it's weird.

And another thing....

[marybethorama.livejournal.com]

all that happens when you have kids of different ages too.

Re: And another thing....

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

I have heard that, but been lucky enough not to feel it. Now my 24 yr old brother on the other hand would be nodding right at you and understanding completely.

[alohamelly.livejournal.com]

She reminds me a lot of my stepmonster - not that my dad's wife ever said anything to us like that, but I suspect that's how she feels about my sister and I.

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

I thought of you too when I read this and thought "huh no wonder some people don't get on with their step/half siblings like I do with mine."

ugh

[ibex67.livejournal.com]

didn;t have the patience to do more than skim it. incredibly selfish woman. no real understanding of what marriage or family is, imnsho.

Re: ugh

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

You know what really chaps me? I am trying to figure out how bloody awful it can possibly be to have two girls who are relatively normal by all accounts and in the same age range as your first, and why this would be such drama. I'm not saying it would be just all glitter and rainbows, but how bad can it be? Makes me wonder if she realizes how good she's got it.

And I tell you what else, if I was the bio mom of those two girls, there'd be some court dates soon after that stunt. Makes me almost wonder if that was their goal. :-/

[sherina.livejournal.com]

Right at the beginning of the article she said this:

I know this may sound incredibly selfish, but when I fell in love with Neil it was him that I wanted. It never really occured to me that I was taking on his children as well.

As far as I'm concerned, that could have been the entire article right there, nothing more needed to be said. "I didn't know this would be hard, I didn't think, I am selfish." Yes, on all three counts!

I'm not saying it should be easy, I'm sure it's very hard to balance being the nice stepmother and still being in charge of a blended family, but duh?