Giving a go to a new family after a divorce can pose all sorts of challenges, even when the couple does their best to ensure that the transition goes as smoothly as possible. It could take a long time to build bonds, children might not get along with each other, and parents may start to disagree when the time comes to make important parenting decisions.
What this Reddit user didn’t expect when she married her now husband was that his ex-wife would treat her as a babysitter. However, she wasn’t willing or able to take care of 10 children in total, which stirred quite the drama.
Scroll down to find the full story and a conversation with licensed marriage and family therapist Dr. Maritza Mikolich, PsyD, and licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical art therapist, sex and relationship therapist, and founder of Solstice Therapy, Rachel Del Dosso, who kindly agreed to tell us more about stepmothers being treated as babysitters.
