Do Not Fear: The Arguments Shall End

As you sit in your room, trying to avoid argument with your stepparent, it is almost as if it is their job to do so. Once you walk outside of your room, they find a way, any way, to yell. You fear them, as if they are some stranger that just walked into your house. Who do you think you are?

Talking to a kid with such anger and manipulating them so that a stepparent feels powerful is just evil. Therefore do not let your stepparent torture you like this. And those who've had nights like this, I know how you feel. After a long day of school, and finishing up a hard soccer practice. You HAVE to go home, but you don't want to go home. Once you go home, you take a shower, sit in your room, and do homework. Maybe even skip out on dinner.

This is wrong. You shouldn't have to hide. You should feel comfortable in your own home.

You must gain the strength to leave your room, and to stand up for yourself. You never know, maybe things will get better after you stand up for yourself. Dr. Barbara Greenberg, from Psychology Today, says"Sometimes a confusing dynamic develops where the stepmother begins to see the child from the earlier marriage as the "other woman." This is a painful and very difficult dynamic."

It is ridiculous to be seen as the other woman. I am my fathers daughter. I am not here to play games and spar with this woman? I love my dad, and his happiness had always come first. But his happiness was either to have her, or to have me. I could not butt head to head with my stepmother anymore. The screaming, the fighting, and the heart break had to stop.

So face your fears. Step on the battlefield and stay strong. If the time comes where you must put down your weapons then do so.