I'm so sorry Dom.......I hope things get better before Christmas rolls around

If it ends up becoming another episode of Jerry Springer, just get some beads and *somehow* inadvertantly place them around your stepmom's neck (calling her your stepmom seems a little... off)

Birds

Families have there good times and bad times; it's just a shame that it had to happen now. Your stepmom sounds like a pretty violent, uncontrolled woman especially with the banging of the doors and shouting at you (guys) without solid evidence. Hopefully your dad will get some sense and do something with your her, be it a divorce or an understanding of where she stands.

Good luck and chin up! Things will definitely get better sooner or later .

Dom, I'm so sorry you had such a miserable Thanksgiving. These things are tough. I wish I had some pearls of wisdom, here, but I don't. The one thing I would suggest is to try to talk to your Dad. You are such a gifted writer, maybe a special letter or card would be in order. I lost my Dad a number of years ago to cancer. Now there's so much I would have liked to have said.

Anyway, these things only fester when communication breaks down. I understand you may not be able to communicate with the your stepmother, but she is his wife. It's absolutely evil of her to make him choose between time with his children and time with her, but it sounds like that's what she's doing to him. Maybe someone should point that out to him. (HINT HINT) Family is a special thing to have. I'm an only child and have now lost my mom and dad. It's lonely out here.

On the other side of this, I'm beginning to see how you have so much drama in your stories. They're a reflection of the drama in your real world. I kinda like the Jerry Springer idea, too.

Maybe in the meantime, you just need a distraction to get your mind off of all these issues. I KNOW! How about posting a chapter of TOSOM or WT? Yeah, that's the ticket. A distraction that would just thrill all us starving Domaholics! We're going through miserable withdrawal.

Seriously though, However you deal with this problem, I wish you the best of luck.

Rick

You know Dom, I find writing helps relieve all the frustration.

Sorry to hear about all the drama, and I truly wish I could say I never had anything like that happen to me. A little bit of advice...do christmas at your place, but go ahead and invite your father...just let him know that as long as his wife says you are not welcome at 'her' home, she's not welcome at yours...

Jeez- talk about the wicked stepmother.

Should have splashed her with mop-water. She would probably have melted. Oh wait... wrong story.

Dom, I know you're pissed at your step-mother, but why do you have to take it out on us? (TOSOM 13's ending is what' I'm referring to here...when's 14 going to be put up?)

Grrrrr

Now, that's drama!

I think I know why your stepmother blames you for her marriage problems. You seem to be the go-to guy in your family, the person everybody else depends on. Since she seems to be having problems with the family as a family, you get to be the symbol of everything she doesn't like. Remember that holidays are when family problems usually come out in the open, and when they do, they sometimes get exaggerated, sometimes in ways that will blow over, and sometimes in ways that stick. Can you talk to your dad at his work or on a cell so that you can keep in touch while this blows over or comes to a crashing crisis that rearranges things, whichever it's going to do?

By the way, I love this chapter, and I figured out why David knocked Oliver out.

I had cousins in your situation a couple of years ago. It was pretty hard on them since they where all still minors at the time. The guy who my aunt married was a jerk. But, within time things got better. I hope things get better for you to Dom. You seem like a great person, things will get better for you.

p.s. great chapter

Anthony

Families eh?

Can't live with them, can't live with them.

Families eh?

 

Can't live with them, can't live with them.

Well I manage just fine, without families. I really don't see what the big deal is about people thinking they have to have hordes of people they can't stand, seeing who can get drunk enough to throw up first and make an arse of themselves. Who can eat more than a 3rd world country could imagine ieating in a year and going through the pretence of having purchased something thoughtful, that really no one likes and can't wait to get rid of.

If the family is having an argument, spend time by yourself - peace, quiet, catch up on reading or whatever and the biggest bonus of all not seeing anyone else for 3 or four days. Heaven!!!

bodgy

Might I suggest two things guv'na?

1) Chocolate fixes everything- even if someone is fatally allergic, (the thought *counts*). So if she doesn't come grovelling with barrels of the stuff then you can go right ahead and plan an evil plan of REVENGE.

2) Stand strong, take no quarter, (even though she'll probably twist people to her cause) and remind your father of this; you're his son. She's a STEPMOTHER. You're irreplacable, she's... well, no offense, but there are many, many intelligent women out there who AREN'T psychotic...

>_< I meant not to seem mean... but family wars are worse than national ones- nothing good comes from the former... whereas you *occasionally* get interesting new toys from the latter. Like Penicillin. And multi-track snow-plough thingies..