ndw, thank you so much for your reply thought no one will reply me!! My hubby have 2 kids, daughter will turn 18 in October and she moved out and son will turn 12 in Sep. , he is living with us and my hubby got a full custody! He is living with us and he stay at his mom every other weekend!!
Long story..dont even know where should i started!! I living in US now, sometime I really really wanna go back to HK with my daughters!!
Can imagine very difficult and tired for you....it's always tough to be a step-parent huh....
I had one, he is at 13 now, a kid with very good personality, but of course also hv lots of problems just like other teens. And I have total diff perspective on how to coach him as my hubby which is the major problem.
What I learnt is NOT to take the role of a mum (deep in his and his father's mind we are not their mum actually, through maybe unconscious). Whenever there is conflict, I treat my hubby as "fren" only and so I may only give advice but I let them to fix it by themselves. Getting involved will only make u tired and not be appreciated.
And of course let's be the sweet wife and aunt when time is good.....
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I live in US too.
You don't need to tell much, I know. Teenagers in US is hard to deal with anyway even with their own blood realated parents.