Password protected
I was NOT on that page. Really. Didn’t want to do it. I feel like my thoughts should be able to be my thoughts regardless of the evils lurking out there to challenge me. I feel like I shouldn’t have to go underground on the things I write about, because the things I write about are true.
I’m not slandering anyone, or publishing falsehoods, or wrongly accusing. I’m certainly not stooping to the new lows to which The Egg Donor (ED) has stooped. But…
I have reached a point where I feel like it’s prudent. I don’t think she knows about this site. I’ve been careful to give everyone an alias. I’ve tried to keep identifying information out of the equation. Even if I hadn’t done those things, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t even know what a blog is, and certainly can’t be torn away from her endless trips to the shopping mall to sit in front of a computer for any length of time. So I’m not worried about it.
But I do believe that it’s time to exercise a little more care with my posts, and the content contained therein. So I’m password protecting the posts I feel deserve a little more discretion when it comes to readership.
For those of you who have faithfully read my words fuh-evah, e-mail me at stephaniesplace at gmail dot com (or just leave a comment) and I’ll happily send you the password you can use to unlock those protected posts. We’ll just pretend like they were never protected in the first place.
Know that this, under no circumstances, means that I’m planning to stop blogging. I’m not. I don’t plan to censor myself, or my thoughts, or stop sharing my story with others out there dealing with similar situations. I’m not going anywhere.
Just keeping it a little more on the down low… that’s all.
In this house, I'm the Mama... 
Reeaaalllyyy?
You’ve got my email…
Good Thursday – I was following an internet trail of hope, err websites about steps and blended families etc. and I was led to yours only to find that the crumbs I so desperately need are (and I totally here you) password protected so here I am knocking at your haven, err door asking if I can come in and play! 🙂
Stepmom – crazy custody suit, move away suit, you name it declarations in court and I am losing my mind. Feel like a prisoner in my own home.
HELP!
I’ve been reading for about a year (and have read your archives). While I hate that you have to go through so much obviously ridiculous crap, I love that you DO go through it – that you and your Hubby fight for your kids. I wish I had had a parent willing to fight for me like that! I would like to be able to continue reading your posts, if you don’t mind – you give me hope.
I want a password! I’m pretty sure you have my email…
I definitly would like a password. I have been reading and drawing from your experience for months now. I have read through your archives and definitly desire to continue to gain knowledge from you. My email is naturalorganicmama@suddenlink.net
I’d love a password.. like many others, I’ve been reading for a long time and watching your family do the right thing (or at least the best thing you can) time and time again, gives me hop. This gives you my email, I hope I can keep on reading.
Wendi
Wow, we all do sit around watching Google Reader….
May I have the password please!
C.
alovething@gmail.com
Hello, I have never commented, mostly because I don’t quite know what to say. But I love the way you write and I hate to hear what she is doing to your family, but I would like to continue reading about your fight for everyhing your kids deserve that she is not providing. If you don’t mind I would like to continue reading.
I have been reading for only a little while, having found you by way of another site. Sad to say, I have the same experiences as you, thanks to my husband’s ex-wife. The biggest waste of space known to man. The kids live with us and saw there mother via the normal custody arrangements. Until about 2-3 months ago when they each (girl 14, boy 18) came to their own conclusion – their mother is flat-out crazy and they are humoring her most of the time. You deal with your situation with much more humor and grace than I manage most days and are really an inspiration. I need all the help I can get and would like to continue reading your perspective. Thanks. And God Bless!
This is very cathartic, may I please have the password. I stumbled upon your site only a few days ago. This outdoes any counselor session. I salute you and all the power to you!!
Please! Password me. Your blog is an informative eye-opener.
Hi Stephanie,
Definately password me. Thanks.
Count me in…I decided last week to do a similar thing with my blog.
Yup…. passwords…. Sorry you are having to deal with that. ::hugs::
Please send me the Password! I love your post, but I completly understand why you are doing it
I’d like to get this password as well. I’ve been reading for a long time (rarely comment).
I’m sending good thoughts your way. Would love to be able to continue reading your blog.
I’d like to keep reading. Wow…seems like a lot of the blogs I read went password protected in one day.
I’d like to have a password too, please. I recently made my blog private for similar reasons. I think you can see my email on this comment. I hope so.
Please password me! I love your blog!
I’ve actually been considering the same thing… Cruella’s a bit too computer savvy for me not to think she might be looking. Can I have a password please? Thanks!
I am sorry that it has come to this…Please send me the passowrd.
I’ve always wondered if you ever worried ED would find your website, possibly use your words against you in court. And I totally understand that because I have a blog that I loved having public. I started it over three years ago before I knew there were all these other step-moms out there doing the same thing – writing about their trials and tribulations, joys and fears of being a stepmom. Unfortunately, the BM in our lives found our website and all heck broke lose. So now my public blog is very private, only a few of our family and friends log-on to read it, which makes me sad.
I think you’ve come-up with a good idea, just sorry you have to do it because then people like me that just stumbled onto your site won’t gain the knowledge, comfort, insight that they are not alone on this journey called stepparenting. It is amazing how pervasive the ex’s reach truly is, isn’t it!?!?
If you feel comfortable, I would really like to continue to read about your journey…all of it! 🙂
Much Love,
Emma
p.s. Sorry, but I too am one that has never posted before!
Can I have one too? Have also been reading for a while and love to see how someone else deals with the Skid/BM issues.
-M
Hi. I’m a faithful reader and comment every once in awhile. Can I get a password please?
My email is hillmonkey2001@yahoo.com or katriina.maki@gmail.com
Would love to have a password. I’m a new stepmom and have been reading your blog for a little while. Thanks for being such a great example.
-A
Me too!!!!
Hi. I rarely comment as well, but I’m a faithful reader and can identify with SO MUCH of what you write. When I have doubts about how I’m handling a situation, I read your blog and am reassured that I’m not alone and I am doing the right thing.
I completely understand why you are doing this. If I don’t make the “cut”, I understand.
You are an amazing woman and the kids are so blessed to have you in their lives!
“Gidget” (my online alias)
I also just found you and appreciate your experience and insights,e ven though I am sorry you have to go through all of this. I would appreciate your password. Thank you!
I don’t leave comments but I do read your blog once in a while. You and Mrs. H really help me work through my crazy life. If you don’t mind I’d like a password. Thank you.
I’ve been reading for awhile and would love a password (I looked for your email but couldn’t find it). But if you only want to give it out to a select few, I undersetand 🙂
MissBurb.TheBurbz@gmail.com
I posted my request on the wrong blog! I’m a dork. Anyway, if you approve, it can be sent to pamcee71 at yahoo dot com. Thanks!
Yep! Hidding behind the Computer!! I wrote about this one in my Blogger.. wavemaker2.wordpress.com YOU have two life’s your living.. Trying to keep secret about whom will see what you wrote.. Bummer!! Come out let them read it.. What you afraid of!! Hidding behind the Computer is NOT the answer!!.. til l8er
Hi Stephanie,
I am a faithful reader of your blog, I don’t think I’ve ever commented before. I would LOVE a password as I read your blog weekly and I love the way you write in a “just the facts ma’am” sort of way. I am also a stepmom, so I always can feel just what you’re going through. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
My email is:
jcheasley@yourworkspace.com
Julie
I’ve been reading for a couple months now (I from a divorced family so its interesting to see the step mom’s view) and would like to continue reading. My e-mail is amtaylor84@hotmail.com
Hi I don’t have your email but I have been reading for about a year now and I myself am a step-mom and a bio-mom and i completely understand what you are goign through… I hope that i can get a password because your blogs inspire me to be a better bio-mom… I was one of those ones who tried to make my ex husband life a miserable one until I became a step mom and experienced it myself… and that is one thing I never wnat to do again…
Thanks
I may have commented once or twice (I’m not much of a commenter most of the time) but I’ve been reading for several months now. If you feel comfortable with it I’d like to continue following along. Thanks.
Hook me up, Stephanie. Thank you.
Hi Stephanie, I can totally understand why you feel the need to protect your posts with a password. I would terribly HATE it if Bm ever was to get anywhere near anything like this that I have written.
I would really like to continue reading your blog, I feel like your blog is a great inspiration and a source for free legal advice, lol!! You are a great writer and I do hope you will keep posting, in the mean time please include me in your allowable readers, Thanks DSS
Stephanie-
Could ya hook a sista up??? (May I please have a password?)
OMG- Is all I have to say……
I’m completely at a loss for words….My husband’s ex just found my site and THE SHITE has hit the fan.
So this morning I am catching up on everybody’s blogs (all of our step-mama sisters out there) And it is like some invasion from hell! Everyone is going private. The Ex’s have come out of the wood work at the same time. It is heart-renching…
We need to have a committee of step-moms that can give out the a password once a month to people who have been scanned and are deemed safe…Anyway I’m just brain storming-
So many passwords, so many obstacles to still go around…. We have to do it at home now we have to do it here.
Stephanie-
Could ya hook a sista up??? (May I please have a password?)
OMG- Is all I have to say……
I’m completely at a loss for words….My husband’s ex just found my site and THE SHITE has hit the fan.
So this morning I am catching up on everybody’s blogs (all of our step-mama sisters out there) And it is like some invasion from hell! Everyone is going private. The Ex’s have come out of the wood work at the same time. It is heart-renching…
A committee of step-moms (is what we need) They can designate the password to safe people whom are deemed trustworthey….Anyway I’m just brain storming-
So many passwords, so many obstacles to still go around…. We have to do it at home now we have to do it here.
Sign me up woman.
Steph:
They are coming out of the woodwork!
Hi Stephanie,
A true lurker coming out of the woodwork for the first time to request a password.
My email is rortvedt7@yahoo.com
Thank you
Oh please can I have the password??? PRETTY PLEASE 🙂
serendipitous223@yahoo.com
Thank you ahead of time
I’m a lurker but not a commenter, but would appreciate the password. I have empathized with your struggles as there is a similar situation not with my own family, but my sisters. She reads as well
please send a password. thanks and best.
I’ve been reading, but haven’t commented yet, however I don’t want to miss anything that might help me get through this really hard thing called stepmotherhood. I would really appreciate a password.
Thanks!
Please send a password. It is so sad that our communities where we get so much support have to “hide”!
Hi, I’m a lurker too. I came via Typical Mommma, I’m her SIL. If I came here to read something and found it password protected I would FLIP OUT because you are like the weather girl on TV–you don’t see me but I see you every day 😉
Thanks,
Linda
Wow, who knew all you had to do to get a load of comments was to start password protecting your posts? HAHAHA! Looks like you’re pretty darned popular!! I’m soooooooooo not surprised!!
Dear Stephanie,
I would like a password.
Thanks.
Hello! Just letting you know that I sent you an email!
Hi Stephanie,
I found your blog through Daisy, my daughter-in-love. I admire you and your husband for fighting for your family and doing the right thing especially when it is so difficult for everyone. Please send me your password as I would love to continue reading your blog and supporting your efforts. I remember you from the wedding–you walked down the aisle with my youngest son. Blessings to you.
I found your email to me, but I could not see the password. Could you send it again? Thanks,
Hi Steph. I fully intend to keep reading your blog. Fuh-evah. My email address is mylittlewren AT gmail DOT com. Thanks.
Ooh please send me the password. bleulaluna AT gmail DOG com. I too will be reading Fuhevah. haha.
Add me to the password list chica! Still reading here, just busy with nursing school. Hope all is well with you – heard from a few folks at the old workplace a couple of months ago. 😉
sorry i am late to the party…can you send me access?
Have you sent out passwords yet? I see the new post but cant read it yet without the password. :0)
Hi Stephanie~
I have to read your site everyday…I found you from Mr M, my brother “in-law” and I love to follow along on your blog…Could I please have the password!
Thanks!
I would like the password…I’ve been reading your posts for quite a while…it’s nice to know I’m not the only one dealing with these issues!
I couldn’t find anything in mine either. Do you get the email address when we enter it on the comment form or do we have to post it?
Thanks!
Hey darlin’
Can you send me a password?
❤ Lani
WoW!! All these ppl want YOUR password!! hhuumm!! What are YOU hidding? Yea, we have divorces in OUR Family also, and the same old shit fighting word’s and all goes with the territory of Divorce and fighting for the kid’s but that’s LIFE!! But, I would let them ALL read it.. What are they going to do to you that they have NOT done already.. And keeping it on the blogger, like that’s going to hide it from them…LOL Not likely..password are not, think about the Alias!! ..Think about this one first OK!! Believe me it’s out there… ROFL I just can here the click, click, click, now..til l8er
Hi Stephanie,
Long time reader; first time poster. I actually came by way of your website when I was looking for information on Egg Donors (believe it or not). I’ve gotten so engrossed in your family’s ordeal and outraged at what you have gone through (especially since my husband and I have been hoping and praying so long to have our own family), that I would sorely miss not knowing how things are going for you all. If you are still handing out passwords, please send one my way.
Thanks, Brenda
I would like a password as well. thx.
CAn you please send me the password. Your blog helps me get through each day with my fulltime stepkids and have a biomom from hell who pays no support for the kids in over 5years.
Thanks
I’d love a password too 🙂
Hope you’re having a good weekend.
I have been reading your blog for awhile and just checked back in to see it is password protected. Could you please email me a password so I may continue reading and realizing I am not the only one going through these things!!
Stephanie- you are a wise woman…although the anonymity of blogging means you must trust those of use who comment and are requesting access are not in league with ED…I’m not, but I’m just saying. Send me a password if you dare.
I’d love the password please.
Thanks so much!
Hi Stephanie
I am not able to get in with the password you sent me…was wondering if maybe I wrote it down wrong? Thanks!
Kristy
Hi Stephanie,
It’s me again…can I please get the password 🙂
Thank you
I used to blog (it was mostly a chronicle of our house being built) and I still own the domain name (castlefairchild.com) – but when I got pregnant I went on hiatus. Then my host couldn’t figure out how to auto bill me (like they had for years?!) and they cancelled me – which was fine since I hadn’t posted in forever and I hadn’t upgraded wordpress in forever either. I may start up again – since I have a 3 month old little guy to blog about…or I may not – but I REEEEEEALY want to continue to read yours!
Thanks,
– H.
Please send me your password! I really enjoying reading your blog!
Thanks!
Please send me your password! I really enjoy reading your blog!
Thank you!!
Stephanie- please send me the password! I really enjoy reading your blog!
Thank you!!
I have found hope in what you write and I want to hear more. You give me confidence that we could fight if we ever had to.
Thanks, and please send me a password.
Cora
Please send me a pass word. I love your blog. It helps me in my own situtation. Thanks and good luck!
you won the I LOVE YOUR BLOG AWARD from me…see my blog…
Yowza… 83 responses and counting. That’s a whole lot of delurking 🙂
Don’t fuhgeddabout me…
Following your email instructions and am requesting your password via the blog.
I found your link on Karon’s Stepparenting Journey.
OMG! I thought the crap hit the fan for sure before I read this post! The ED of my ex found my blog and made a crap-storm about it, so I deleted years of postings and there was only a few about her, but I didn’t like her reading my feelings and thought. Good idea to protect your writing.
Please email me a password. Thanks!
*hugs*
Hi Stephanie,
I would really like to have the password and continue reading you.
my best to you,
Marlene
Hi Stephanie,
Please send me a password for you blog. Thanks for sharing your trials. You are not alone.
Lori
Stephanie – Please forward me your password, i would love to keep reading your posts!!
Thanks,
the american dreamer
Hi Stephanie, when you get a chance, I’d like the password too: thesmirkingcat@yahoo.com.
I have been lurking on your blog for a while, and have read all the archives, can I have a password so I can continue to learn and commiserate with your story?
sorry my email is jennifer dot jakubowski at gmail dot com
I would like a password – email to jenyifer at gmail dot com.
Stephanie,
I would love the password. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing the password with me. I sent you an email about my feelings on it, and my appreciation for your writing.
Thank-you for getting back to me. Am looking forward to catching up. Have a great day! Teedee 🙂
Hey Stephanie: Thanks for replying to my email. I would love to have the password. S
Hi Stephanie,
I would love to have a password for your blog.
Thanks!
Casey
Hey Stephanie,
My computer crashed Sunday night, I spent all day Monday getting it back up and running. Lost the password for your blog. Can I get it sent to me again?
Thank you
Hi Stephanie,
Can you send me the password again, please? Today is the first day that the password I had does not work.
Thanks!
Alison
I found your site through a link from Stepmother’s Milk. Would love to read about another step-mom and look for any advice.
Me: 36 DH: 39
SS: 17
SD: 16
DD: 12
Thanks so much!!
Stefanie