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[quote=Anonymous]I have a little of that but it's mostly because of an age gap - my stepsibling is 30 years younger and essentially grew up with my dad in the house. And my dad's wife is only a few years older than me. My kids are close in age to her kid. So they treat him as a kid, and me more as a peer. We've gone on vacation with them but of course always pay our own way, while even at 30 they still pay for my stepsibling when they vacation together. Of course I still pay for my kids too so it's not that unusual. They do go on more trips with her family than with mine.

Income wise I think we out earn them, and we are both pretty high SES, so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to expect they are going to pay for things for me, but yes, it does occasionally bug me that my stepsibling gets things that I didn't get as the same age. But that's mostly because they are in a better economic position now then my parents were way back when.

Out earning them also makes me less focused on the fact that his wife, and then stepbrother, will inherit everything. It's probably a little unfair but there is nothing I can do about it, and I don't need the money, so I don't worry about it.

Overall we have a good relationship with them, after an initial rocky period (due to affair/divorce), so I just focus on that.[/quote]

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