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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry you're having a hard time. Please recognize it's not like that for everyone.

Tonight my ex brought my two youngest home, and stayed for a half hour between talking to my step-kids and then talking to DH about basketball or something. [/quote]

Wait till they get older. [/quote]

How much older? What's the magic age you're thinking of?[/quote]

When they have their own young children and in-laws to deal with, and they're very short of time, money, and emotional energy.  When they're burned out from several decades of accommodating your divorce, and starting to catch on that being the adult child of elderly divorced parents is going to be really, really difficult.  That's when things get tougher.[/quote]

+1.  When I was your kids' age, PP, I didn't understand how the divorce would play out over the rest of my life.  Now I do.

You will probably start experiencing blowback whenever they catch on, or when the "blended" nature of your family requires them to make significant sacrifices (beyond what they've already made, of course).  Or when there's a crisis involving a stepsibling and turns out, they don't really care.[/quote]

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