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I am in need of some advise! I adopted my then 13 year old step son 10 month ago. Prior to the adoption, he lived with his father and I since the age of 2 and although his bmom shared custody, she was barely involved in his parenting. She did pay child support faithfully. It was her idea to start the adoption process. Prior to the adoption she payed child support, visited fairly regularly, and we kept in contact about him. Now that the adoption is said and done, I feel like things have dramatically changed on both ends. I am not sure how things should be??? Because we are now doing 100% of parenting I am looking for a little more space. She rarely calls to check in but when she does she expects me to fill her in on every detail of him (he is a teen going through a hard time and most of this we/he want to keep private) and to set up visits when she wants them. I really just want to focus on being a mother. I feel like she expects me to keep co-parenting with her. Anyone have to deal with anything like this before??
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