This is going to sound\u2026 weird, but I honestly don\u2019t know how else to explain it. Last week, my stepdaughter left her notebook on the kitchen counter. I wasn\u2019t snooping or anything, I just picked it up to move it out of the way and the pages fell open.<\/p>\n
Inside were sketches of me. Not cute little doodles, but mean sketches. My clothes, my hair, even my face was exaggerated with labels like \u201ccheap\u201d and \u201cfake. I couldn\u2019t believe she\u2019d sit there and do that.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t say a word to her or my husband. I just sat with this awful pit in my stomach. If she\u2019s this bold with drawings, what else might she be thinking or doing behind my back? Couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it all night.<\/p>\n
The next morning, I noticed something weird: in our family photo in the living room my face had been scribbled out with a pen. At first, I thought it was just a prank, but then I found it again later that week, in another frame tucked away on a shelf.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when it hit me, this isn\u2019t just teen humor. She\u2019s literally trying to erase me from the family, from her dad\u2019s life. And honestly I don\u2019t know how to approach this without causing a full-blown fight, also I don\u2019t feel safe living under the same proof.<\/p>\n
Has anyone else dealt with something like this? How do you handle a stepchild who\u2019s acting out in ways that feel so personal and almost spiteful? I\u2019m honestly lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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