Wife can't get along with her stepson and the drama that unfolds…

You have noticed that Carol is always ill-at-ease with your son from your previous relationship. Anytime the young prince is visiting, Carol is never comfortable on how to handle the young-man who can be handful.

You are old enough to know that most women cannot raise their stepchildren with the same love they raise their biological children. Most of them are spiteful, impatient with the kid and they always wish the kids were nowhere in the picture.

You used to think that Carol is a modern woman who believe in the universal calling to treat every human being with dignity and equality, regardless of how they are related to you, but you were sadly mistaken. She is human (read a woman) after all.

"Does Ryan make you that uncomfortable," you ask Carol, after a particularly cold sneer towards the Prince.

"No way, he is just a kid, why should he make me feel uncomfortable?" she jumps into denial.

"But that stare you just gave him is deathly!" you almost shout and she notices this is about to degenerate quickly. She lives in a glass house. Her daughter, who is not your biological daughter is someone you are so fond off and you like her as you would your biological child. You can see embers of guilty coming out of her eyes.

"But the boy is rude, he can't listen to anything I say."

"Neither does he, when I order him around, he is just a kid for Chrissake! You shout again. You are mad at her inability to know that Ryan is a kid. And kids, more so boys are rude when young and managing them requires tact, skill, and good negotiations skills, which you expect any mother to have. But you are overrating her too much.

Adopting a preachy tone, you implore upon Carol,

"Tell you what Carol. Treat these kids equally and fairly. Don't be biased towards your daughter. You can die today, and I can marry another woman who may be forced to take up your daughter, you want her to treat Farrah well..."

"I know, but I think you are overreacting...that is not necessary..."

But you can see she is stung. She hates the boy even more. Especially how he is seated entitled in the sofa, like a prince he is. Funny enough, they don't even get along with Farrah. Everyone minds their own business. The two kids are so vain, and their mothers even worse, you should call your household, House of Vanity.

But Caro is relieved because this is the last time he is seeing your boy until the next holiday. This is the last weekend, before you drop the son at her mother's place, and this is the longest yet he has ever left you to be with kid.

When you take him back to the mother, ahead of the opening of the school. The first thing her mother blurts out as soon as he notices the kid is:

"He has not been eating properly. He has lost weight... and are those mosquito bites!

She asks in quick succession, without as much as saying hi...

Yaani in three simple questions she has trashed Carol's wife credentials and mothering skills. Women though.

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