The Stepfather: Classic Complaints
- "She always jumps to the kids' defense""A man has to be King of The Castle. I feel like the house boy."
- "She says I'm too tough. Kids who misbehave need someone to be tough with them."
- "My wife treats me like an outsider when it comes to the kids."
- "They need a man around here, and she and they won't let me be one."
- "She has been too busy with her job to be a mother."
- "I buy the kids stuff and they hardly say thank you."
- "I feel like a third wheel when I'm with her and her kids."
- "I must come first for this to work."
- "I give her kids the gift of my time and no one says thank you."
- "Here she was alone with those kids; I come in to put some order in the place...and they all reject me."
- "I can't teach them what they need to learn from a man. She doesn't support me."
- "It's her house, the kids were there before me, and they let me know that."
- "I love her so much when we're alone and they're at their father's house."
- "People write about the plight of the stepmother. What about the stepfather? "
- "There is so much tension in the house when the children are here."
- "Who acknowledges what I'm really feeling emasculated in my own home."