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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]

See, that's an easy promise to make when you're young.  Much harder to actually do, if you have your own kids and spouse to take care of as well.  And it's really, really expensive.[/quote]

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