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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OP here, What you are saying is exactly what my post is about, these "relationships" do not always or even usually form in these scenarios. I have very strong relationships with my brother, my father, my mother, my half sister, even cousins but that just simply never clicked with my steps. It's very difficult and has been for a very very long time. If you are divorced and also remarried be warned, your kids likely don't feel legitimately bonded to your wife/husband and thier kids. I really have tried but it's just not there and now I am forced to spend holidays with people that if my parent was no longer involved with (either from death or a split) I would never talk to again. And please understand, I'm not in a fight with any of these people I just don't particularly want to spend all my holidays together.[/quote]

IDK, Op, you are not guaranteed to really want to spend time with any of your relatives, regardless of divorce/remarriage issues.   Personally, I actually enjoy spending time with my stepbrother and his family, not so much with my biological sister and her family.  I honestly feel somewhat indifferent to my stepfather, but he's nice enough and I don't have any issue seeing him on the holidays, just not much in common, but no problem with him.[/quote]

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