You are lucky in the sense that your husband no longer puts pressure on you to be someone that you are not. But even if he doesn’t expect anything from you anymore, I know it’s not easy to have your stepchild around no matter what the situation. I feel you. The more I tell my husband that I don’t feel comfortable around his son, that I don’t like playing with him, that we have nothing in common, and that I have trouble liking him, the more angry and hurt my husband gets. Then this leads to him expecting even more out of me when his son comes over and if I don’t produce good results he resents me more and more each time. We are doing couples therapy right now and it’s not working. No amount of therapy will change how I feel about his son. I just don’t like him and I really hate being forced to like him. They tell me to put a picture of him up on my fridge. No thank you. They tell me to hug him once a day. I cringe at the thought of that. It’s getting really bad and right now my husband and I are trying to figure out if we can work it out and find a compromise. We love each other very much and we want to be together, especially for our daughter who is about to be 3 months.
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