Signs to look for if you suspect your step-parent is


These are some signs to look for if you think you may be the victim of an "evil step-parent":

makes you feel unworthy of anyone's love
makes you feel unwelcome in your own house (you were there before they were)
tries to keep you from doing things that you were able to do before
makes unfair rules as an attempt to "regulate" your behavior
puts you down constantly
gets mad when your parent wants to spend time with you
destroys your stuff when you're not there (later you find that it's missing--your step-parent acts like they don't know what you're talking about)
never compliments you when you do something good

If your step-parent does half, or more, of these things, then he or she is probably "evil". You should tell your original parent how you feel about the treatment you have been receiving from your step-parent. If they don't do anything about it, you definately need to find out why. If they confront your step-parent, they will most likely end up fighting with them because the step-parent will not feel as though they have done anything wrong. If the step-parent does admit to treating you badly, and they apologize, accept the apology. If they continue to treat you this way, keep telling your original parent about it. If you have to tell your parent more than 5 total times, including the previous one, then it is probably safe to say that the step-parent doesn''t mean it when they apologize and you should not give them the benefit of the doubt anymore. Also, if the treatment continues for 6 months or longer, you can probably also assume the above.
Too many people are caught between their children and their new husbands or wives. Since the new spouse knows that this person's child or children isn't theirs, they feel that they can treat it however they want to sometimes. In other occasions, they just don't know how to react because they don't know what it's like to have kids, or they don't love the child as much as their own child. Any step-parent is going to love their child more than their spouse's child. It is sad, but they do not have that bond with the child that its parent has with it, so they can't love the child as much as its parent does. The only way that a person can love its step-child as much as its own would be if it actually had never had children.

Some things to look for if your evil step-parent has a child of its own

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