Dear Judy,
My stepfather is 81 with congestive heart failure and other issues. He complains constantly to my mother and sister that I never visit him.
Actually, I do visit from time to time, but I think he forgets. Either that or he’s malicious. He always was, and I don’t expect him to change now.
The problem is [...]
Dear Judy,
Our stepfather, as I guess you’d call him, has Alzheimer’s (our mother is dead). He has one daughter by his first marriage, and she is Ms Take-Charge. You know the type. She can do everything. She boasts about it all the time.
Now she is saying that I, the step-daughter and no relation to her at [...]
Dear Judy,
Our mother remarried years ago. She and her 2nd husband are now both 78, both with coronary issues. My mother had a heart attack last year.
I am 40, and not married, and I help out as much as I can. My older brother doesn’t do a damn thing. He says he has “a demanding [...]
Dear Judy,
My stepfather just died. He was very good to me when I was growing up, and I appreciate that, paid for my high school AND my college (my mother was jobless and also a drunk, to be honest).
Then he divorced my mother and remarried. I couldn’t bring myself to forgive but not because he [...]
Dear Judy,
When our widowed mother remarried, it was to a guy who never had kids. Our mother always told us to treat our stepfather like a real father. When she knew she was dying, she kept saying, “Take care of your stepfather…Make sure he’s eating right…Visit him often..”
Well my sister and I did all that. [...]
Dear Judy,
How dare you give unsolicited advice! I saw what you wrote yesterday to someone named “Cal” (an invented name, I’m sure) about his stepkids and the antiques he was left by the mother.
Well that was my mother and those antiques of hers should have been mine. She said it about a million times while [...]
Dear Judy,
The man my mother married when I was 13 is now dying of lung cancer. My mother has just informed me I have to spend time with him at least one evening or afternoon a week. (So does his grown son, but that guy is a blood relative. I’m not).
My stepfather was always perfectly decent [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009