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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't forget, you will have to arrange all holiday schedules with the children's other families, forever.  If you want the stepsiblings to have the slightest chance of feeling like family and being treated like family with each other's extended family relatives, that will require face time and travel.  Hope you can afford it! And good luck forcing them through it.  They may go along now but when they are teenagers they will be indifferent or outright resistant.  You can't just wish everyone into a family.  They all know perfectly well you can divorce again and they will never see each other again if that happens.  It's fake.[/quote]

And that's the problem you'll always care about your bios first. Sometimes you don't want the step on every vacation, and your kids don't want to have the step either. Or  step wants to be with his bio parent and bio grandparents for holidays. On and on it goes.

Sometimes you like the step when their small, but then as they age it changes. I've seen it all.

OP you should not have anymore kids. In fact it sounds like you need to date for quite awhile.

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