Dear Stepmother,
145. That is the number of hours until I leave your house. How on earth do you not see that you are one of the most overbearing, anal, crazy people I’ve ever met? How your kids ever grew up living in your house is beyond me, and it’s little wonder that your grown daughter doesn’t speak to you anymore.
I can’t figure you out. I think you genuinely don’t realize that you are driving everyone crazy… but seriously! I am 20 years old and being treated like a rebellious pre-teen… but at least you’ve restrained yourself from actually grounding me (much as I know you’d love to). And you think people don’t see past the act! I know you can be a nice person sometimes, but it doesn’t make up for being a bitch. Bitches who use nice voices are still bitches.
Thanks for the lesson. I now know that having things done my way is not nearly as important as respecting the people I live with, and I will never, ever be like you.
Next time I come to stay, please give me a rulebook so at least I’ll get a fair warning.
—Free in 6 days
This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2009.
See, this is why I haven’t had a date in 9 years. Bringing a Step into my family didn’t seem worth the headaches that often come with it. Although, since it appears to encourage kids to leave home by 20 years old, I might reconsider = )
Couldn’t have been that bad, you stuck around for a couple of extra years.
Be sure to put your toys back in the crib before you waddle off…
from Stepmothers perspective: I’ll be so glad when that spoilt little fucker is out of here, what a miserable little bastard…..
free in 6 days ! What’s going to be free in 6 days ?
Sure won’t be your rent!
Or living expenses, food…no there is one thing your going to learn really quickly when you walk out into that big ole world…nothing is free & if someone says it is, there’s usually a catch or a string attached. Unless possibly, you have managed to find the way to ‘the big rock Candy Mountain’
Good luck out there
Hey, More…you listen to country music = ) (the big rock Candy Mountain)
Good point though. It is likely that the OP will return home at least two more times before living on her own sticks–at least that is the trend I am seeing.
I agree, step-moms can be a real pain! What can also be a pain is your father pretending to be a fucking martyr trying to keep everyone happy while he’s really putting the new missus ahead of his own kids.
I’m not bitter though, I understand now. I’d probably do the same. Women have more power over men than they think!
I can see qpmzwonxeibcruv as a step-mom now:
“You are free to do whatever you want, but first you must correctly pronounce my username, on the first try.”
It’s a Russian name, from Igor Qpmzwonxeibcruv the Great, who helped invent the modern day keyboard pattern.
yeah after a quart of vodka
I’d rather shovel elephant turds than be a stepmother, thanks. Did it once during my first marriage, it was a fucking nightmare for all involved – unfortunately, it’s the kids who suffer most from these situations. Get out of there as fast as you can and don’t fucking look back at that tight-lipped, tight-arsed cow.
Living alone isn’t that bad, nor that difficult. People either make it seem incredible easy or impossibly hard. It’s neither: like most things in life, it’s smack dab in the middle. You have to work for your money, your money pays the bills, but you have every freedom you could ever ask for. You can put off the dishes for a day or two, come and go as you please, and have sex at two in the afternoon if you damn well please. I moved out and I never looked back!
Heathro, wanna get lunch at 1ish?
You’re officially my LTTWB stalker. I didn’t know there was such a thing. 🙂
12:30?