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Creating a stepfamily needs careful negotiation. Keep talking, says stepmother (and stepdaughter) Georgina Johnson.
By Georgina Johnson
Published: 3:46PM BST 22 Jul 2010
Officially, one in 10 of us is in a stepfamily. Unofficially – as my teenage stepdaughter would say – it has to be, like, so much more than that.
As well as being a stepmother to two children, I am also a stepdaughter. I have two stepsisters and a stepbrother. Thanks to my grandfather’s remarriage, I have a stepgrandmother, and a host of stepaunts and stepcousins. I have much-loved stepnephews and nieces. They in turn have their own sets of stepmothers, stepfathers, stepsiblings and so on. At my stepsister’s wedding, my stepmother sat at the lunch between her ex- and current husbands. My stepbrother’s ex-wife – there with her new husband and stepchildren – got on the dance floor with his new girlfriend….Continue Reading
