Stepfamilies

[99 44/100% pure]

I have step-parents and grandparents and three half-brothers that I'm so close to we don't use the "half" prefix except to explain to outsiders.

I have had experience ranging from great to shitty with these folks and it all seems to come down to the same characteristics which affect "natural" families: do unto others, and, what goes around comes around. You are starting so young with these kids that the most likely interference with developing and maintaining normal family relations will likely center around the biological dad*. What's his story? Is he alive? Involved with the kids? A decent person? Have a cordial (at least) or friendly (ideal) relationship with you? With your wife?


*Um, I seem to have assumed that you are male, and married to a female, and that her former partner is male.