Ages: SS 18 (turns 19 in a month), SS17

My stepchildren are inherently decent people but deeply misguided. Completely out of touch with reality and the fact that child support helped to create an unsustainable lifestyle for them and HCBM. She has a six figure income now which has afforded them even more material things they could not afford on their own or if HCBM suddenly lost her income. Since I’ve met them, I’ve always been told that HCBM has trust fund grandparents that will be her and their safety net. HCBM has told them she doesn’t need dad’s money. Their mother is a bit of a corporate miracle as she is making this money at a Fortune 500 company with only a 10th grade education (no diploma) and no college. They minimize the real effort and hard work it takes to survive on the “outside” and it’s frightening. College is “pointless” to them, and anyways, mom will pay them whatever money they need to “figure it all out”.

I would never label them as lost causes, but they are in desperate need of a champion or some life changing event to reset their warped outlook on life.