r/stepkids

I think it was some time late last year when I woke up at 11am to find an empty house, with the gas stove left switched on, fire ablaze.

They (Father + his wife) left the house that morning on a 1.5 - 2 weeks long trip.
By the time I noticed and turned it off, the switch was hot to the touch.

It's 12.30am on a Wed night when I got to the kitchen to boil some eggs. When I wanted to turn the switch on, I realised it was already turned on to the max, no fire. She left the house around 3-4pm on Tues and only came back around 8-9pm and I don't think there was any other cooking done that evening so I suspect it's been on for longer.

Idk if the 'gas' ran out while running for hours thus no fire? Either way, still unsafe.

I swear a fire is going to break out one day.

Ok so basically, my dad and my stepmom have been married for a year now, and they recently had a baby. Before that, my stepmom was super nice and stuff, she wasn't arrogant or stuff like that. After they both got married and we started to live together, she would constantly start getting mad at me for random stuff.

Sometimes, we would go out for a walk, me, my dad, my little brother and her, and I would sometimes be in a bad mood, because of what knows reason. I would often just walk behind them all and be in my own thoughts, and then she would just randomly start insulting me out of nowhere?? Also, when id say that I'm not in the mood to talk, she would start asking a million questions, and when I answered that idk, she would start mocking me, and ofc, that just made me feel even worse.

And when she gave birth, it became even worse. It might be hormones or something but yeah. She would constantly try to force her baby onto me, going like "look at him! He's so cute right" etc. Also started me insulting more and more and what not: "wow! Look who finally came out of their cave!" Stop.

Also this is probably just overthinking, but, Im also thinking she's kinda using my dad for money, cuz she keeps pestering him about buying absolutely useless, expensive stuff that we DO NOT need at all.

I had something more to say but I lowk forgot, if I remember I might edit this post, anyways, thanks for reading and I'd appreciate advice if possible!

(Oops I just remembered so I want to add a bit, basically for example, it would be 10pm, and my dad says I can play games until 10 right. And it would be already like 10 mins past 10, and I'm still on call and everything, and then she decided to come down because she has a migraine or something, and I tell her that I hope she gets better right? And she goes back upstairs and fucking snitches me to my father. And if he found out himself, then he probably wouldn't be this mad, but ig it's my fault (it was a Friday night I think)

I just wanted to know if we can talk about step relatives (step grandparents, etc). My stepdad's dad in particular is an interesting guy, and I have some stories about him I'd like to share if that's okay. Thanks :D