List four classic complaints from stepmothers that are likely not to apply to stepfathers
What will be an ideal response?
(1) "Everyone in his life, his kids, his former wife, and his business, comes before me." (2) "I want a child of my own, and he's had enough." (3) "My money goes to support this family because his money goes to take care of her and them." (4) "His former wife never says ‘thank you' for any of the things I do." (5) "The children treat me like the maid." (6) I'm expected to do everything that their mother would do for them, but without the respect they would give to her." (6) "He believes that buying his children something, or entertaining, is fathering." (7) "His children say the meanest things to me, and my husband defends them and tells ME I'm overreacting." (8) "I think I'm becoming the ‘cruel' stepmother." (9) "The worst of it is, when his children come over we have no sex life."
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