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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: My "Stepwife" wants to hyphenate her sons name
After scouring the halls of the library to find help on how I should deal with her. I found that the official title is "stepwife". She is the old wife, I am the new wife and we are linked by a step child. Since there is a child involved we all have to co-exist. Not the one I choose, but the one I am stuck with for marrying my H.
Good news. H and I had a good talk last night empowering him to do the right thing. I explained that if he was serious about this it would be difficult, but the only way for this to end is to cut it off at the pass every time. Like the Dog Whisperer-NO. NO. NO
They (H & ex) had a nice civilized talk about schedule. He sat down with his son, asked about his feelings on the matter, talked about why it was important to him, apologized for him being involved in the confusion that should be adult conversations. (Guess mom went off on son yesterday about it) Then we see that his school pictures arrived..hyphenated, and his coat has it on the tag, and more. Son tells us she has gone marker crazy on all of his belongings over the last couple days since the original chat.
So H called back and this time (after son was in bed) I could not have been more proud of any man standing up for himself. He in no uncertain terms told her this was confusing their son, and it would stop one way or another. This was not going to continue. School pictures would be reprinted as would any new jerseys she puts the wrong name on (at his expense). No matter how much she tried to spin the topic he brought it right back home and said he would talk to her new husband too if she felt it necessary. His name is *blank* and that will never change. Period.
Then this morning he dropped his son off at school, visited the principal and both of his teachers to make sure they knew this was not court ordered and would not be acceptable at all. Got added to email lists and correspondence independent of BSC so there would be no further issues about school work communications.
GO Hubby!