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[quote=Anonymous]Semi-echoing what other posters have said - it is a crapshoot - like all of life.  You know your own tween and that gives you an indication of how things might go.   My parents split up and dad (with whom I lived) remarried and had a child when I was 14.  I was completely uninterested in babies at the time; half-brother was clearly the favored - "their" - child.  That part didn't bother me overmuch given that I was soon off to college and uninterested in family life at that point given my own self-involvement/discovery stage.

He became quite a fuck-up and still essentially is . . . though the jury is out on how things will end up.  Hard to pinpoint exactly why - combo inherent personality and some spoiling/overindulgence.  He might pull it out and do okay in the long run (he is 34 now), though at his core he is pretty self-involved and unambitious so I have doubts that core essence will ever change.  We are not close and I resent how hard he has made my dad and stepmother's lives.  I am sure that every day their first waking thought is "I hope XX does ok today/doesn't screw things up."[/quote]

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