Dec 30 2008
Why cant I just love her?…
Ok, call me a monster or unmotherly but I dont know what to do… My boyfriend of two years has a 12 year old daughter by his first wife and I cant seem to bond with her. I have three children of my own, so its not that I dont love children or understand them, its just that I cant bring myself to love her like my own. Is that really bad of me? And what does that say about the relationship between her father and I?.. She has been an only child for 11 years and now her father has come to live with me and my children and I really think that she is absolutly trying her hardest to drive a wedge between all of us. She constantly is picking on my two younger girls, hitting them, or pinching them, or going into my sons room and will not get out when he ask her to because she says she doesnt have too. God forbid that she even remotely has to pick up after herself or turn a tv off, because I think that both her hands are broken. I dont know what to do anymore. Its not just me, my children do not seem to like her. I had been planning on taking two weeks off after Christmas so that I could relax and get my house clean and hang out with some of my friends. I had made prior arrangements for all of my children to go to their dads after Christmas so I could have some me time. His daughter came for Christmas also but instead of taking her home after a week, he wants her to stay and have me babysit while he works all day, so its not like he is going to get to spend any quality time with her. WTF…. What about my time, what about the things I had planned. I sent my children to their dads, why would I want to babysit his?.. I dont know! I am at a lose as what to do or where to go from here anymore.