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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to present the other perspective: I am part of a blended family. My dad married my step mother when I was almost 9 and my step-siblings were 9 and 4. My dad and step mother had another kid at basically the same time they got married. Custody was 60 (mom)/40 (dad) for me and 50/50 for my step-sibs and arranged so we were all at my dad/step mom's at the same time as much as possible. It all worked fine. There were some issues, but nothing of a different level of seriousness or intractability than any other family would have. I got along very well w/ my same aged step sibling and my much younger half sibling and not so well w/ my younger step sibling, but for very normal sibling-esque reasons. As adults, we're all sort of cousin-y in closeness, but get along perfectly well. I got along fine but not great w/ my step mother growing up, but she's a fantastic grandmother to my kids (who call her grandma and don't see her as any different than their other two grandmas).[/quote]

My next door neighbors had a blended family that worked.  [b]Each parent was a young widow/widower[/b] with three children.  Each parent had 3 kids.  Don married Betty
and all 6 kids moved in together.  Both Don and Betty made a huge effort to make each kid be part of the big family.  All kids are grown now. I believe some kids
are closer to their step siblings today than their bio siblings.

Both Don and Betty both told me there were rough times however.  They were from a generation that made marriages work.[/quote]

No offense but this is completely different. you aren't dealing with exes, and exes having new kids, and exes' new spouses bringing their own kids into the equation, and working out visitations and resources. [/quote]

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