'My stepdaughter is slowly morphing into her abusive mother – it is terrifying me'
A stepmum has opened up about how much she dislikes her stepdaughter, who she calls racist, homophobic, bigoted and smells bad.
Posting on Reddit under the user CatMum96, a mum said that she has known her now 11-year-old step-daughter since she was 18 months old and loved her to pieces when they first met.
But as she has grown up she has gained more of her mother's “traits” and is emotionally, physically and verbally abusive to her and her husband. She refuses to eat anything other than sweets and crisps, stays up all night on her tablet then won't be up until lunchtime.
She also “refuses to wash or brush her teeth” is “racist, homophobic, bigoted” and refuses to help anyone around the house with anything they need.
She said: “I've known my stepdaughter since she was 18 months old. We got on well at first and I loved her to pieces, but as she's gotten older I'm finding myself really disliking her.
“She’s taking on more and more of her mother's traits, and her mother was physically and sexually abusive towards my husband, and still is verbally and emotionally abusive towards him, and me at times.
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“She's started talking to us in the same tone her mother uses, belittling everything we say and do, nothing is ever good enough, she refuses to eat anything other than sweets, crisps and chocolate.
“She wants to stay up all night on her tablet, then causes merry hell when the Internet disconnects, waking up the other children.
“Or she will try and sleep in until midday, and get vicious if she's woken up before then by the goings on in the house. She expects everything but will do nothing to help.
“For example, she just drops rubbish where she stands and expects us to pick it up, but won't lift a finger around the house.
“She refuses to wash or brush her teeth so she smells pretty horrible, but you can't force her to wash. She's racist, homophobic and bigoted, just like her mother, and I have LGBT family members so that doesn't sit well with me.”
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The mother then said that due to the summer holidays approaching, she is having to do alternate weeks with her birth mother and does not know how she is going to be able to cope - which is causing problems with her husband.
She said: “Now it's the summer holiday and we are expected to have her alternating weeks and I just can't do it.
“I've tried talking to my husband but it just dissolves into an argument, our other kids don't want her here. I don't want her here. If she behaved like this as an adult, I wouldn't associate with her.”
Although she is struggling, the mother says she knows that regardless of the treatment she has to be a decent parent but is finding it hard.
She said: “I know that I do not have to like my stepdaughter, I just have to try and be a decent parent, but that's so very hard when I'm afraid of her.”
