Evil Stepfather

My former stepdaughter just turned 18.  Now that she’s an adult, I wonder what she will do with herself.  I hope she’s cleaned up her act.  I looked at the relapse rate of teens who go to camps for troubled teens like she did, and am not optimistic.  My ex did say she was staying clean and sober, but I’ve learned not to trust what she says.  Hell, she thought her daughter was making progress before she was sent to the camp, despite the facts staring her in the face.

My stepdaughter’s idea of legal adulthood (when she was 15) was she could do what she wanted, when she wanted.  Life would be free and easy.  I tried to tell her that reality was quite different from that, the responsibility of working and paying bills because there was no one to take care of you would rear its ugly head, but she didn’t hear me.  It’s impossible to get a “normal” teen to listen to facts, so there was no chance what I said registered in her brain.

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