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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sibling and I are very well-adjusted and happy children of divorce who are still VERY CLOSE to each other and both of our parents AND both of our stepparents AND our stepsiblings.

I am guessing this is because my parents coparented very well together, splitting time with us 50/50, and it happened when my brother and I were fairly young. The got divorced when I was 5; brother was 4. My mom remarried when I was 7 and my dad remarried when I was 11. (Still both married to my stepparents)

I am now 25 and brother is 24. Happy to answer any specific questions...[/quote]

Have you thought about elder care and what it might be like without step-parents?  When I was your age I said similar things, but second marriages often fail, and my circumstances are now very different.  I have a totally different perspective on the divorce in my late 40s because my parents can no longer shield me from the consequences.[/quote]

Elder-care in terms of taking care of my parents if a step-parent dies or they get divorced? Not sure how this would be different if my biological parents were still married; wouldn't that still be a concern? Not sure I'm understanding the question correctly...

(BTW at this point, I am extremely close to both my stepparents and stepmother has no bio-kids of her own, so if they were to get divorced, of course, I would make sure she was taken care of too.)[/quote]

Yes, like if you became the primary caregiver instead of a spouse, if that happened.  I am caring for both of my single elderly parents in different locations and it's tough-- would be much easier if they at least lived near each other.  [/quote]

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