She Told Her Husband She Wants Him And His Daughter Out Of Her House Because She’s Starting To Hate Her Stepdaughter
Any parent who went on to marry someone with kids from a previous relationship knows how hard it can be to adjust to blended family life.
Blended families, while they can be beautiful, often come with a heavy emotional toll and don’t always start on a high note.
One woman recently told her husband he had to take his daughter and move out of her house because her stepdaughter was harassing her youngest son.
She and her husband have been married for eight years. She has a 14-year-old son and nine-year-old son from a previous marriage. Her husband has a 13-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. Five months ago, they had a baby girl together.
Everything was going very well at the start of her family’s blended life. Aside from a few quickly resolved disputes, everyone got along, and she and her husband took their family on trips and outings that made everyone happy.
Then, they even started a tradition where they’d plan one-on-one hangouts with each of their kids.
But then, everything changed when she had their baby five months ago.
“My home has become a war zone between my youngest son and my stepdaughter,” she explained.
“They are physically fighting each other constantly. [Most] of the time, my stepdaughter [is] instigating. She knows my son has [autism] and ADHD and doesn’t like being touched, so she will go up to him and poke him continuously even after being told to stop and then calls him [a] psycho when he flips out. She purposely provokes him to a point where my husband and I have told her at least eight times that she is to stay away from him for the rest of the day.”
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Recently, she noticed that her youngest son has been easily getting very emotional. He refused to talk to her for a while, so she took him to a behavioral therapist.
The therapist revealed to her that her son opened up and admitted that her stepdaughter wasn’t just messing with him physically but mentally.
She would fill his head with all kinds of negative thoughts that made him anxious and sad.
“It was enough to warrant a conversation with my husband and him cracking down on what his daughter was saying to my son,” she said.
“He eventually ended up grounding her for that and something else, and it just made it worse. This morning, around 6:00 am, my son just started flipping out over nothing. I tried talking to him, and he said, ‘Shut up, you never even loved me anyway.’ I asked him what he was talking about, and he just screamed at me to shut up again. My stepdaughter, who was at the table eating cereal, said [to him], ‘Get used to it. Like I told you, nobody loves middle kids. You should just move out now,’ [and] he stormed off to his room.”
After pressing her stepdaughter, she found out her stepdaughter had been telling her youngest son that he would “never be loved again” now that the new baby had arrived and he was technically a middle child.
Her stepdaughter tried to turn her son against her and her husband, telling him they were the reasons why he’d be an ‘unlovable’ middle child.
She was incredibly furious after this interaction and felt she and her son couldn’t be anywhere near her stepdaughter for a while.
When her husband walked in, she told him she couldn’t take this anymore, that his daughter was destroying her son’s life, and that she was beginning to hate her.
Because she owns the house they live in, she told her husband that she and her son would move out for a while and that he would have two months to find a new home for him and his stepdaughter.
“He’s trying to argue that this can be fixed, but it’s really come to a point where I hate his child and don’t want her near me or my son at all [even though] she’s great with the baby,” she added.
“He says he can’t believe I’m throwing us away over something that can be fixed.”
Was she wrong to demand that she and her husband split up their family, or did she do the right thing for her and her child?
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