Re: Step Parents, unorthodox families, how do you do yours?
I want to share with you all a story which I think is appalling even though it is about my relatives.
My great uncle and great aunty (K & R) have a son (C) who has 2 girls by his 1st wife and is remarried and has 2 step children, a boy who lives with his father and a girl who lives with him and his wife. His 2 girls live with their mum but he has them every weekend. For a start, when they bought a new house, the biggest bedroom (I assume apart from his and his wife's) had to be for his girls, even though they only stay at weekends, his step daughter had to have the small room. Personally I think that's unfair, esp as at the time, his stepdaughter was 11 and his girls were 4 and 6, I know there's two of them but as it's only weekends surely they could make do with the small room?
What I think is really appalling though is K & R's xmas routine. Every year, on boxing day they have xmas day i.e. the opening of presents in the morning and the big dinner etc. because C's girls have xmas day with their mum. Fair enough but C and his girls get to sleep the night before, the girls get up all excited, open all their presents from K & R, etc, etc, only at lunchtime are C's wife and children allowed to come, with no presents for them. I think this is appalling and from what I gather, this is the only time of year C's stepchildren are even allowed in K & R's house.
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