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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are nuts.  I showed this post to them. This thread is full of very angry ex-wives and adult children who never grew up.  
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Completely agree. It's a broken record of screeching by angry ADULTS who can't emotionally process that their mommy and daddy are no longer married, and oh the horror! the parents have moved on to other relationships.

Wait till they go through their own divorces, which they will.  A different story then.  [/quote]

I have to agree that there’s some weird fixation on the past here. And I say that as someone whose stepmother was and is positively terrible. But it was terrible because I was a CHILD, based on how the adults treated me. My step and half sibs were fine - we were all in that mess together (ironically we blended because our parents were such a sh*tshow.) Now I am and adult and I don’t gaf. I go where I want on the holidays and ignore the rest. Y’all need to grow up and live your own lives. If you get divorced/widowed and remarried, do a better job. [/quote]

So to answer the OP's original question, here is a blended family that did not "work" and one reason for that is that adult children DGAF.[/quote]

no, my point is a) if you act like a reasonable adult and put the kids first, a blended family can be fine. despite mine being awful, that had nothing to do with my step and half sibs, and everything to do with immature and abusive adults. and b) if you are and adult and still fixated on your bad blended family, see (a) and start acting like and adult and do what is best for yourself and your own kids. [/quote]

It seems like the OP wants more blending than that, though.  DGAF amd polite tolerance isn't really blending.[/quote]

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