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[quote=Anonymous]I am a bio parent and a step parent.  DH and I have been married for 7 years, we dated for 3 years before that.  We both had custody of our 2 kids and all of the kids were really little when we met.  Since the kids were young, it was fairly easy to blend our families.  I can't imagine doing it now that they are teenagers.

I tell people that in hindsight I should not have entered into the blended family.  I love my husband and I think that I would be really lonely without him in my life, but the drama and issues that arise from being blended are really just too much for me.  Take normal stressors in life and multiply them by 10.  Things are so much more complicated.  I have been put in situations that I never dreamed of before and never want to be in again but I will because of the dynamic of my family.

Life would have been much simpler for me and my children if I had remained single.  I think I'd be lonely, and really I don't know what my life would be like had I not married but in my mind the grass is greener on that side, the side of less drama.[/quote]

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