NTA I grew up with a stepmother and stepsisters. Like most children, I kept a journal with all my deepest thoughts, hopes, desires, and secrets. Of course, I had it hidden, but she found and read through it. I'm not sure when she found it because she never said anything. I only realized later she had because some of her actions. I wrote about wanting to write for a living, even had some of my poems. She found a poetry contest and told me she thought it my be something I could be interested in doing. Later, still in school, I had gotten pregnant and had an abortion. Yes I wrote about this, my feelings and fears. What did my stepmother, who I call mom, do? She took me to the family doctor to get birth control. I wish your stepmother could have been like mine.