[ SECRET POST #2527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2527 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #361.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/mwIe2D2.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

A+ for missing a great deal of points all at once

but mostly for thinking that during most of history women could strike out from their families and live alone at age 20.

[ggc]

you make your stepdaughter do the dishes?!

you monster

[fenm]

Yes, obviously since YOU know one young woman who hates doing work, every person like her must feel the same way...

[starphotographs]

This is amusing to me, because I'm thinking about a scenario where Cinderella thought her stepmother was some kind of monster, and the stepmother thought Cinderella was just a whiny goldbricker, but really it was just lots of bits of both and neither, and everyone involved was being kind of a tool. But really, it was all just a big misunderstanding, so they hug it out or something.

Someone should start writing really anticlimactic reworkings of folktales. :P

[(Anonymous)]

"Pay for her lodging"?

Not "doing the dishes to help around home" but to pay in someway?

I don't know why, but I find this pretty weird I guess it's some kind of cultural difference?.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow.....

That's just stupid...

CLEARLY because one person is lazy , abuse doesn't exist.

Fuck you. Fuck you with a knife.

[(Anonymous)]

However, Cinderella was shown to be kind and nice and, no matter how hard they made her work, she always seemed to keep a positive attitude about it, which doesn't sound like the case of the one person you know. I think you're comparing apples to oranges here.

[fingalsanteater]

This doesn't even make any sense unless you believe Cinderella is an unreliable narrator since we saw her step-family's cruelty.

OP is secretly Gregory McGuire. (I forget the name of his Cinderella book.)

[diet_poison]

Not sure if troll secret, or if you are unable to comprehend that not all situations are the same. Or maybe you feel like because you're a step-parent, all step-parents everywhere are perfect?

...besides which, it's a story, so Cinderella didn't make up anything because she doesn't actually exist.

[sarillia]

Hey, I wrote this story!

You're wrong about the original though.

[ill_omened]

Who makes their kids pay for their lodgings?

Kinda weird bro.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like such an asshole stepmom. I bet there's more to this story than you want us to believe.

Step parents fucking suck, seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

Come on, guys; it's a half-joke secret made by someone who's pissed off with their lazy step-daughter. No one's saying 'abuse doesn't exist!'

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't this a repost from PostSecret a Sunday or so ago?

[comradesmiler]

I'm just going to assume you haven't had any more experience with kids. It's easier that way.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

Don't worry, you'll leave her to babysit an infant one night and when you comeback she'll be all sweetness and light with a new attitude, but the infant will have a worrying obsession with 80s glam rock.

actual post secret

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't this on the post secret site? The original I mean.

[(Anonymous)]

This doesn't say good things about you, OP.

[sootyowl]

What. You obviously missed that the step mom was controlling and emotionally abusive.

Sorry to hear that your step-daughter isn't the best, but her ≠ Cinderella.

Does no one else realize

[tyger66]

That this secret was actually stolen from a Postsecret batch a couple of weeks ago? Seriously, I remember it very clearly, because I thought "That's basically a fandomsecret lol" when it was posted.

EDIT: Ninja'd!

[khronos_keeper]

Oh man I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I grew up with the cultural belief that everyone contributes toward the family home, usually in some kind of chore or favor basis rather than money. If for nothing else than just because it made us value the place we live in and the work we do, as well as the work of others.

My sister at one point was the type to find herself unduly overburdened when asked to clean the house when she still lived with our parents. She cited the fact she worked two other very very part time jobs, while my parents worked probably 17+ hours a day.

I can see the perspective of having an adult acting like an entitled child when they should have the emotional maturity and sensitivity to contribute to the house they live in.

On the other hand, I live with my parents in spates, mostly between jobs. But, I clean house, help them with farm work, and other stuff. They don't ask me to do it, in fact they usually give me some kind of return for my labor (I work something like 15-17 hours when I'm at home), when I just see it as a sort of trade-off for putting up with my ass while I live with them.

So I'm conflicted. I've never understood or appreciated the whole parents expecting their children to pay them for living with them, but in my community, children often live with their parents for a fairly long clip, especially if they're unmarried. We're poor, and women especially can't make enough money with the jobs available to pay for their own separate housing.

[(Anonymous)]

Whining about doing the dishes would, indeed, make Cindy a brat.

Whining about doing the dishes, the laundry, the cooking, the cleaning, the mending, and not even getting to go to ONE freakin' party afterward, on the other hand...

This was actually from Post Secrets

[(Anonymous)]

It's a repost. Just so y'all know

[(Anonymous)]

If your step-daughter doesn't clean her own room, doesn't do her own dishes and laundry and doesn't prepare her own meals at the age of twenty, then I'm honestly sorry for you and can only encourage you to stop doing any of these things for her. And, of course, should she earn her own money but isn't willing to pay for any expenses (and if her parents don't get any benefits anymore), then ask the parent you are in a relationship with to ask your step-daughter for a monetary contribution.
But - and I don't think I can stress this enough - if you haven't been a part of your step-child's life for a very long time, please don't try to interfere with the actual parent & child relationship too much, as it then is none of your business!