
Step-parenting is ridiculously hard.
Last year it almost cost us our relationship.
I write so many posts about new info I’ve read or theories I’ve heard psychologists talk about, in the hope to spread some clarity on the subject.
But the truth is, mainly… it’s f*cked. It’s sooooooo hard.
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It’s like being one family torn in so many different directions. Instincts go one way, heart goes another and head goes altogether.
And to top it off, most couples pretend it’s all perfect with smug photos on social media about how amazing their Brady Bunch family is that have just blended together perfectly with no hiccups at all.
At the end of last year, with work stresses as well, it all just felt too hard, I wanted to raise the kids one way, my husband raised his another way. He is stricter than me, comparing our kids was making us hate each other and I felt a ball of fury burning inside me every time he disciplined my little boundary pushers.
He felt that same fury when he saw how they disrespect me; they felt the same fury when he butted in and so on and so on.