Been Stepdading for a year now and I don’t know how to handle these kids, I’m pretty sure the youngest (7) is in desperate need of some mood stabilizers and the oldest (12) is becoming a carbon copy of his biological piece of shit and my girlfriend tries, but she gives in to their shitty behavior because she never had any help and she has a really demanding job and I feel horrible for her and I try to tell these kids to chill the hell out and all hell breaks loose.

I don’t know what to do to help her, I try to be there for her, but sometimes I’m like “Damn if this was my kid I’d knock it upside it’s damn head acting like that…” I lost my cool tonight and told the youngest to shut up because she likes to act like she doesn’t do anything wrong and if her mom yells at her for something she cries and screams that “Why are you yelling at me!” Over and over again…I love the kids they are great when they are being good, but goddamn sometimes I want to blow my brains out…

Any advice, anyone else go through this stuff?