Looking at Step-Parents: From A ‘First Wife’
Families come in a myriad of different set ups, families break apart and form new attachments, people get unmarried and then remarried to other people. Throwing a kid into that volatile mix and things can be all the more confusing.
With the divorce rate what it is, it’s no surprise that often step parents enter the equation. While this isn’t anything I’ve had to deal with, there will more than likely be a day when either myself or my ex husband will date and then marry someone new.
Step Parents don’t always get a good pr, especially from the ‘first wife’.
Maybe though, this is where a personal soap box can be. My ex has dated a few women, none of which lasted long enough for them to be more than a small footnote, if that.
As for myself, I’m simply not ready to add in anyone new to my life.
This was enough to make me think about what could potentially be ‘the inevitable’ future second wife and Step parent to our daughter. I would love to ‘get along’ and be happy with any sort future arrangements, but at the same time honestly-I’m dreading it.
It’s incredibly easy to sit here and claim everything will be hunky-dory but that’s not reality. It’s one thing for any potential ‘Mrs. My Ex’ to be imagined as someone I will be able to get along with, and my daughter’s care will be absolutely assured in her and his company.
Unfortunately, that’s not reality. Now, it could be but the chances of it actually happening are something I’m not going to even attempt at figuring out.
So from both step parents and fellow ‘first wives’ how did you learn to cope with all the change, or how did you learn to cope with each other?
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