It would have been beautiful for a few years there. But it didn’t happen. And o don’t think it’s going to happen anymore
Or it could have been horrible. You know the Brady Bunch was a fantasy, right? My sister was the best stepmom to her stepdaughter, but due to how her parents raised the girl. Her mom blamed my sister for the breakup of her marriage even though it broke up because SHE cheated on HIM and my sister didn’t come along until they were divorced. Her father was weekend Disneyland dad who would never correct her rude behavior to my sis. In fact, while my sister was killing herself working two jobs 60 hours a week to pay off their debts, he was still sending several hundred dollars a month to her, even though she was 28, working, and living with her fiancé. SHE certainly wasn’t working two jobs.
Now that her father has died, she’s mad at my sister for things completely out of her control (my sister had to sell their rental house instead of rent it to stepdaughter because it was in such horrible condition it needed over $100k of work just to make it safe to live in) . I’m sure she also thought she would have gotten her inheritance now ( my sister was married to her father over twenty years, she will need those assets that they built together for her own retirement, but has every intention of including stepdaughter equally in her own will with her own two daughters).
I’m not exaggerating when I say my sister is a saintly person. Stepdaughter has cut her out of her life entirely, and my sister is only beginning to see that may be a good thing.
I just tell you this to counter that Brady Bunch fantasy you had. Step parenting isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.
