<p>So who all out here are having major clashes with step parents? I deffinetly am, to the point where this immature little (obese) man has decided that I am not allowed to attend xmas dinner, which isn't going to happen, but thats what he's told my mom he wants. <em>sigh</em> sorry to put this stuff on here, I just needed to vent to someone (even if its no one) and I don't feel right about calling any of my friends right now. Can anyone else relate to evil step parents?</p>
<p>i can't relate, but i have a friend who most definitely can (lets call her sara). her step mother does nothing for her, and i think seems to resent that she is the oldest child. she spoils sara's 3 half sisters (who are her daughters and all under the age of 7) with things like horseback riding lessons and expensive kiddie clothes, and treats sara like crap. she wasn't even allowed to go to the college she wanted to go to because her step-mom wanted her to stay around the house, and was able to convince her father to agree too. now sara goes to a cc by her home instead of the school in florida she wanted to go to.</p>
<p>I've never been banned from Christmas dinner, but my stepfather is definitely a major PITA. I've never gotten along with him. He moved in when I was 13, and well, 13 year old girls have wonderful tempers. So we got off to a bad start, and it's always been bad. I totally understand. He's not great to my mom either, which is really hard to see, because she doesn't deserve it. I think that's where a lot of our clashes come from. I don't trust him at all, and he's proven that no matter how good I am, he'll never trust me. Same problem with respect.</p>
<p>My mother's stepmother is terrible. My grandfather is a really wonderful person, who always tries to see the best in everything and makes corny jokes and sincerely loves people. When he married (his first wife died) our family was very nice to his new wife and really accepted her into the family. Essentially since their marriage she's been ill with something or other and can rarely leave the house, and he often stays home and cooks for her. On the occasion that he does leave, she'll often become annoyed and yell at him. She's thrown temper-tantrum/tirades a few times recently and my cousins aren't allowed in her house because she thinks they want to steal her "papers". (She's convinced that she's a poet and wants to make her poetry into a book). Any conversation she turns around to be about herself, she's paranoid and sulks, acts jealous of my grandfather's family, and complains (she owns their house but he pays her a certain amount every month for taxes, insurance, etc.) that she'd get more from a tenant. If he wasn't a religious Catholic who believed in the sanctity of marriage and finding the good in people, he'd probably have left her long ago; as it is my family tries to get him out as much as possible.</p>