As a step mum myself this left my heart bleeding and my blood boiling. What the f**k is wrong with people?

Can't go on reading. My mom got remarried after divorce when we were little and boy did our stepfather know she would dump him in a heartbeat if he wasn't good to us. I am in a new relationship too with a (now adult) boy from my ex and yes, my partner knows that I would ditch him the second he started making a tiny difference between my son and our daughter.

It's not just step parents that do these things. I can personally relate to a number of these horror stories. I left out on my own at 16 and have rarely looked back. Best darn decision of my life.

I am sorry but I could read just a few of these posts. It broke my heart that such toxic people exist and they are getting away with it. I am sorry for everyone who goes through this.

I feel like this perpetuates the idea that stepparents are all terrible. Honestly a person's biological parents can be just a horrible.

My own mother said and did worse to me than any of these. Everything from emotional and physical abuse, lack of privacy, sending me to live in a children's home and trying to date a boyfriend of mine. I spent years trying to repair a relationship with her before I realized it wasn't me who needed to repair it. The toxicity of her, her manipulation of everyone around her, it's best I ceased any contact with her. I'm still learning that it's her loss and not mine and I still grieve over our lost relationship but I can 100% say I'm MUCH happier without her in my life.

My stepfather was fine until I hit puberty, then he became a bully and a sex pest. He never actually molested me but he'd walk into my bedroom while I was dressing, or into the bathroom while I was showering. He became very angry when he realised I was taller than him; my mother claims to have no knowledge of any of this, which I took to mean she was complicit. I left home at 17, if I'd had younger sisters instead of brothers, maybe I would have said something. As it is, I never recognised red flag behaviour and that has had a major impact on my life . When he died in 2018, all I felt was relief. My bio father is a stranger to me, he threw my away a long time ago.

Couldn't read on after 3 of them. Feeling heartbroken :-(

I am the Grandmother of the outcast child in the pictures where they are wearing red and black shirts. They are now homeless, they have no job and no car. They were staying with me but twice in the last week the Dad said he was signing custody of outcast to me and then left. The first time they came back while I was gone and then he yelled at outcast ""Upstairs NOW" The second time he told me he was signing him over to me he returned in two days with a deputy and said I was holding him and wouldn't let him leave. I retained a lawyer two years ago but Dad said we would work it out, and I could have visitation every other weekend. I raised outcast from the time he was born until he was a little over 4. The Mom had problems so I paid for an attorney for him to get custody of him. BIG MISTAKE! The Mom had tried to give me custody but I told her it wasn't right to bypass his father and give custody to me. BIG MISTAKE! Now I don't know what to do. What can I do?

All of these are absolutely heartbreaking. Some of them made my stomach turn.

My mom’s step-mother, I can’t remember anything about her. Mom’s mom died in her 50s so when grandpa remarried, all his kids were grown so there wasn’t a huge issue there. But step-grandmother would give us the cheapest knockoff toys you can imagine, which were always shoplifted (just shoplift the name brands, wtf). Just, like, I can understand getting the cheap version of Barbie dolls when you’re poor and you know your step-granddaughter likes Barbie. But she was shoplifting. And then she died, and later grandpa died, and all of her biological children stole all the heirlooms from my bio grandmother that grandpa still had. 🙃

Step mum here, holy heck! How can people be like this! To me she’s my daughter end of! I could never do anything like edit her out of photos, if anything I want more photos of just the two of us, and all three of us as the family we are. It’s also worrying that some of these are simply horrid parenting, step or bio, people make me sad.

I can't bring myself to continue reading. My blood was boiling and I'm afraid I'll pop an blood vessel at my age. These arseholes are horrible people. But the biological parents definitely share part of the blame. When you're a parent, your child is your top priority when picking a partner. It's not just about your happiness anymore. You make a stupid decision, you ruin at least 2 lives.

Why does it seem like step parents either hate their step children or try to replace the child’s bio parent. Like just be normal you freaks.

Reading these is so painful. I hate when people choose to remarry someone who won’t love their kids with their whole heart. It is just as much the blood parents responsibility. Kids are always the ones to have to adapt tho the uh S**t of remarriage or parents dating or divorcing. Kids are Not resilient. They merely get screwed up slowly and silently and hurt while the grownups do as they please. If you don’t LOVE your fiancé’s kids like your own MARRY SOMEONE WITHOUT KIDS FOR YOU TO SCREW UP And HATE. I’ll never understand the cruelty involved in belittling and torturing a child. Making them feel lesser or like something that has to be “endured” because they married someone who already had kids. Sham on every single one of these step parents. It makes my stomach literally hurt. Feeling like a guest in ones own house, passive aggressive comments, horrible treatment of the ex parent who shared custody. “We pay your mother every month so SHE should buy you pads and deodorant, not me”…..