If it's not bad enough that we have the B.E.F to deal with, she also spills out into our lives through the children.
I've known the children for 1 year and I've loved and cared for them and wished they were our own. More so recently because of their behaviour when it comes to meal times.
If they were my children I'd like to think that we would have this situation but I spent my day off watching football to keep him happy and cooking dinner for the 4 of us, only to hear "I don't like mushy pies" and "aww, how come you have got a piece of fish and we've got fish pie?". (We won't have dared say anything but thankyou when we were kids, we were taught better!).
I told my partner that I wasn't prepared to perpare or cook food for the children again. His B.E.F gives into the childrens whims. The last one was "I don't like mince" but he still wanted the lasagne I was cooking! So the next day when they asked for breakfast I directed them to their father.
When our pet pooped on the carpet my partner said he wasn't going to clean it as it was more my pet than his. I told him I wasn't then going to clean up after his children (he then cleaned it up).
I feel like giving up. I'm going to stand by my declaration that I will never prepare food for them until they start to show some gratitude or change their attitude. My mother thinks that I should feed them the same "favourite" food everytime they are here and that they'll soon be begging for mushy peas with their fish pie.
Am I shooting myself in the foot? Does anyone have some ideas? I'm only 1 year in and I'm starting to crumble. ↓
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