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[quote=Anonymous]As a stepchild, I appreciate the honesty here. My stepmom didn’t like me, probably because we were so hard. And I get that, but I wish she had made a bigger effort and been more forgiving. We were hard because we had been through a traumatic divorce and our mother was crazy and our dad was working all the time. Our dad and stepmom expected us to act like kids who had had a stable upbringing and when we didn’t we didn’t get love or understanding, we got alienated. I hope that stepparents realize that they shouldn’t just mirror how the kids treat them. Biological parents shouldn’t do that either. It’s the adults that have to model kindness and love; we can’t expect the kids to do that first. [/quote]
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