I responded to someone awhile ago on this topic who was in the same situation as me. My mom remarried at the beginning of January of this year. They have been together now i believe six months. When they married my mom only knew him about 4 months I would say. Now before they married he was the same as he is now only worse. When they got married it all changed. Now they have been together a total of 7 months. Since then my relationship with my mom has changed. I have realized how he wants to icialte her and keep her to himself. He complains about everything. Stuff that isn't even worth complaing about such as me being home, talking to my mom. using the computer,cooking in the house, my boyfrind being over. Pretty much everything I do he has a problem with. I know he doesn't like kids but come on. I feel since she married him the relationship with my mom has been strained alot. He is a very mentally disturbed man. My family and I have been watching him over the past few months. I can honestly say it's not good. He gambles too frequently (daily), lies ( about where he's been and what he's doing), steals ( my things, my boyfriends things, my brothers stuff) and has this thing with bottling his own urine! I have heard of aloholics doing this because they are too drunk to walk. I know this because my dad was an aloholic. It is so disscusting. I can bear to go in the rooms. He has bottles of urine in two rooms in my house. I love my mom so much and she deserves to be happy. I think the reason she is not calling it quits is because she is afraid of him. She said he is going to evicit him then divorce him. Then she tells me that they are going on vacation. I can understand she is scared to be alone. However on the flip side I would rather be alone then with someone like him. I think she is afraid of him. He is too controling. Now that my moms car died she only has his car to drive around. Hence leaves him full control. She even admits he's controlling to a point. I just hope she knows what she's doing. I just wish I could ignore him but it's hard when he doesn't like me. I want to move out but.....I can't afford it. Any ideas?