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<blockquote data-quote="BloodiedButUnbowed" data-source="post: 721117" data-attributes="member: 13303"><p>It is especially hard as a stepparent, feeling like you don't have a right to an opinion about how anything is handled, being pressured to give 1000% of myself to a spouse and a family system I feel ambivalent about, my feelings and needs being completely disregarded and ignored, being despised by my monster in law and treated like garbage by her, having to deal with my wife's ex-husband who is dysfunctional himself, being confronted by the obviously unfinished business between my wife and her ex-husband which factors prominently in this whole mess, trying to work a program of recovery in Al Anon and ON TOP OF IT ALL, working full time and trying to maintain my own sanity, sleep schedule, eating schedule, etc.</p><p></p><p>I get that I don't matter in this. I even understand it. I am just the step-parent. </p><p></p><p>Not one time has my wife asked me how I am feeling and how all of this has affected me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BloodiedButUnbowed, post: 721117, member: 13303"] It is especially hard as a stepparent, feeling like you don't have a right to an opinion about how anything is handled, being pressured to give 1000% of myself to a spouse and a family system I feel ambivalent about, my feelings and needs being completely disregarded and ignored, being despised by my monster in law and treated like garbage by her, having to deal with my wife's ex-husband who is dysfunctional himself, being confronted by the obviously unfinished business between my wife and her ex-husband which factors prominently in this whole mess, trying to work a program of recovery in Al Anon and ON TOP OF IT ALL, working full time and trying to maintain my own sanity, sleep schedule, eating schedule, etc. I get that I don't matter in this. I even understand it. I am just the step-parent. Not one time has my wife asked me how I am feeling and how all of this has affected me. [/QUOTE]
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