For step parents

What is that like being married or dating to a partner that has kids from a prior relationship (either gender)? How does their ex treat you? how do the kids interact with you? How long have you two been married or in a relationship?

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Adogslife · 61-69, M

Her daughter is 20 and in college. We waited to move in together until she’d finished hs.

There’s no ex. He passed years ago from brain cancer.

We get along passably. I’ve never attempted to be a step father. It’s not in the interest of either of us. I’m simply her mother’s husband. She probably accepts that because she knows I love and spoil her mother.