[Dueller]

I hate to get on here and whine about the role as stepdad...as I've done so many times before. But bear with me..perhaps one last time (hopefully).

I discovered last night that one of my twin 17 y.o. stepdtrs got a tatoo....several months ago. This was something that was specifically forbidden by mom when stepdtr wanted to do it. So she did it any way. And what pizzes me off is that mom learned of it from her immediately but mom concealed it from me because she knew I would be angry and insist on some consequence for her defiance/disrespect of mom.

Mom's reaction was one of anger at the child but let it go with "You'll have to live with it...that's punishment enough." NADA...nothing else. No consequences.

I don't know what makes me angrier...the tat, the defiance or no knowing what's going on in my own household.

FWIW the tatoo reads "Only GOD can judge me" on her azz. She explained it to mom that she was going thru a difficult time when everyone was judging her and therefore wanted to memorialize her spriritual convictions. Mom bought it. What BS!!!!

I swear my wife isd seriously dysfunctional when it comes to her daughters.