For some reason M and C are complete angels and my brother and I are aren’t. His girls get special treatment galore.
My mum gets up to her neck in washing, especially when M and C are here. M (11) wears 20 pairs of undies a week - no joke. My mum has made mention to my stepdad how many clothes those two girls wear every week they’re here.
Because they’re angels, he doesn’t like this. Every time I put a new change of clothes on (cause I have basic hygiene skills and don’t wear yesterdays dirty clothes), I get in trouble for it. He goes on about how I shouldn’t be wearing so many clothes, that I should be wearing yesterdays clothes and basically making me feel like shit for wearing clean clothes. I literally get in trouble for it.
He made me feel like I had to wear dirty clothes, so I kinda did for a couple days and then I was like stuff this.
My stepdad has 2 dogs and we have 4 dogs (and a cat). I take care of M and C’s dogs every week they aren’t here and every week they aren’t here. If I so much as ask them to feed their own dogs (not even mine, theirs), C (14) grumbles about it. I don’t even like referring to the dogs as ‘mine’ and ‘yours’ because I do most of the work, and I practically raised and spent more time with their puppy.
It’s so many things along those lines. If my brother or I do something wrong, it’s the end of the world and we’re the worst children. If it’s M or C, it’s just a little whoopsie and completely forgotten.
I don’t like spending all day in my room. Today I was in the living room for a while and my stepdad came in and kicked me out for absolutely no reason. He just didn’t want me to be in there for some reason because he pays the bills and can do whatever the fuck he likes. His words.
He can’t even speak to me nicely. He just snaps at me and makes me feel like a piece of shit, like I’m completely below him just because I’m a child. My mum doesn’t parent like this and it’s hard to handle.
So how do I deal with it?
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