Being a stepdad
As we’ve seen, blended families are tricky, and not everyone takes to them as well as we’d like. Often it’s the children who find ways to make things more difficult, perhaps through their behavior or the things they say. Sometimes, though, it’s the adults who don’t help matters.
In this situation, it seems a little of both, with the child unwilling to let the stepdad take on the parenting role. She misbehaved, but he wasn’t exactly mature in his response, and probably has invited a tit for tat relationship between them.