Ms Melancholy's latest post begins as follows:
"Have I ever mentioned the fact that I am a step-parent? We are what the textbooks refer to as a ‘blended family’: me and my son, The Husband and his daughter. We look like a perfectly normal family. The children very easily pass for siblings except that that they don’t invest their energy in trying to secretly maim, shame or kill each other. They get on like a house on fire. They are, in fact, great friends and will hug warmly when they come back to our house after a period with ‘the other parents’ (as we quaintly call them.) I have read a lot about step parenting. Partly for my work with young mothers where step parenting is becoming the norm, and partly to reassure myself that it really is as difficult as it feels sometimes."
Read it all. It's a beautiful thing.
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