Steps and Blending

not sure if this means blended in my own family there is no steps or re-marriages but in my parents family I would think there is my parents don't talk much about it, that is the reason why I think this way they belong to very old tradition where people did not marry between ethnics I believe my parents' parents did and because this was not something that people talked about back then, my parents never mentioned it to us the children either they mentioned what their parents did for living but I had never met them and there was never a photo of them One day I will go back and find the skeleton in the closet Or maybe like my brother said 'leave it be' so my parents family were blended, I mean ethnic wise

What a happy photo. It's great when blended families get a long together. Stepchildren can make or break a marriage if things don't run smoothly. I have a yours, mine and ours comglomeration. 3 from his, 2 of mine then we had 2 together. I really feel blessed in some ways. Blended families don't always work and we've had a few rough spots, but all together we're a happy crew.

I have a blended family. When we finally got married, the younger of my husband's boys said 'it is about time' on father's day my son contacted his step-father (my husband) to tell him Happy Father's Day but not his bio father. I am in contact with my ex's children but not my ex. I actually held his first grand child before he did, and come to think of it, so did my now-husband.

No, my family was intact, even my brother's daughter never had any steps because neither of her parents remarried. However, one time when I was flying back from Denver, I ended up listening in on a conversation of 3 little girls flying alone. There were 2 about the same age, and they looked much alike, but they were steps and the younger girl, who looked like neither of the other 2 was the full sister of one of them. The stewardesses seemed confused because the 2 girls' mother had married the other girl's father and they were traveling ALONE back to meet the grandparents on the mother's side (but remember, the one girl was only related by marriage to the grandparents or the other girls.)

I do. Though I have never lived with them so there was no real transition for me as far as that goes. My parents divorced when I was 10, after 20 years of marriage. My (elder) sister and I lived with our mom and our dad remarried when I was 14 (my sister moved out after she and our mom had a falling out about a year after that). Our mom didn't remarry until after both my sister and I were grown, over 11 years after our parents divorce. I know that I have 2 stepbrothers from when our dad got remarried, though I'm not sure how many step siblings I have from our stepfather's side of the family, but I'm pretty sure there's at least 2. I never met them though. My husband comes from one as well. His late father was married before and has a couple of kids from that marriage, so even though my husband doesn't have any step siblings, he does have half siblings (a half brother and a half sister). That still counts as a blended family, right?

I do not belong to a blended family but my best friend has one since she remarried a few months ago. She has two teenage boys and he has a boy and girl aged around 12 and 8. It has been a challenge to say the least because although the kids got along relatively well before the marriage, now the boys are acting up and causing all sorts of problems turning this situation into ‘The Brady Bunch Gone Wrong’! They got married within months of announcing their engagement and I put the kid’s problems down to the fact that these are huge changes and they are happening too quickly for them. It is a touchy situation; I’d like to believe that in time they will resolve the children’s issues but I don’t know...

My sister has 3 step childern. her husband had 3 daughters before he married her.

My parents both remarried after their divorce. My step dad's family loves me and my brother as if they were our real family. My son is seeing a young lady who is pregnant with another man's child. He doesn't want the baby, but my son does. My hubby and I will love this wee one as if she were our flesh. The saying that blood is thicker than water is not always true.

I don't belong to a blended family...my sister however married a man a long time ago with three kids and they had custody...actually those kids loved my sister a much as most kids love their own mothers....it went well....but then they got a divorce and they went on their way.....

I am reading this through my email so can't see the photo yet. I don't have any step parents or sibilings, though my sister has a step son and my aunt has a step daughter. My sister is a half sister, as was my brother a half brother, but that didn't matter so much. I thought it was cool and called them my "step" family but really it wasn't.

hi Ambie, i have had a step-mother for 50 years & sadly she has alzhiemer's & is a nursing home & doesn't know anybody anymore. She was very good to my youngest son when he was born. She had 3 children but i was never close to them. I knew them all from school but they lived away when she & my dad married. I don't hear from them since my dad passed away lasy year but i didn't expect to.

When I got married and moved here, I became a step parent for an 11 year old. She's not almost 17, and occaisionally it has been rewarding, other times I occupy my time with counting the days until she's 18. She has a pretty high IQ, but unfortunately she spends most of her efforts on NOT assuming any responsibility. That shows in her grades, and the way she keeps her possessions. She may surprise me when she's out on her own...but I more suspect that she's got a rude awakening coming.

No, i don't have a blended family. my parents loved each other despite of their fights and arguments. it doesn't matter if it's a blended family as long as you love each other and care for each other, that matters, and that makes you a real family...