Stepparenting is hard.
This blog post has little to do with anything that The Ex said/did and is more just for me to vent. Nothing really juicy here, just me whining about my feelings. Feel free to skip 😂 Anyone who has a child knows that parenting is hard. It's cliche but I totally agree with people who say it's the hardest yet most rewarding job that you'll ever have. Speaking from my own experience, stepparenting is way harder than just raising your own kids. Constantly being told that you're wrong regardless of what you say or do, always being paranoid about "overstepping" the invisible boundaries between parents and caregivers, loving someone that you didn't give birth to just as much as someone that you did...it's rough. I remember when we first got Son a phone and were helping him program his speed-dial numbers. #1 was automatically assigned to voicemail; Son said that he wanted Husband to be #2, he wanted The Ex to be #3, and he wante...