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[quote=Anonymous]This is the text I received from my (step) daughter this morning-

[i]Good morning s'Mom.  Thanks for listening last night. I feel better. You are right. Today is better. Thank you for always being my biggest cheerleader. Love you to the moon and back! Can't wait till Xmas[/i]

She is 24 and lives in Colorado.  Our family has been a blended family for 20+ years. I put step in parentheses because I never refer to her as anything but "my daughter".  We have five - his, mine, ours. We have always treated them and thought of them as "ours". At this point, we are so blended, the lines no longer exist.

After my divorce, I swore I would never marry again. A few years later I reconnected with an old friend.  He had also been through a tough divorce. We dated for a while and slowly allowed the kids to adapt.  We were in family therapy before we got married and for about a year afterwards. We blended beautifully. Our parents have all of the kids in their wills.  There is no distinction made between the children.  Contrary to what many of the angry, bitter posters are saying, it can work. [/quote]

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