When my husband and I married, we both had children from previous marriages.
I was never a fan of the word “step”. It’s like taking your nails and rubbing them up on a chalkboard for me. My husband and I agreed to never use the word when it came to our children.
We have been married for over 35 years, and our children are now 44, 45, and 50. They all have children, and our grandchildren don’t know the story. They only know they have Grandad and Nana.
When others ask, how many children do you have? We both say, three. Some will question the number because of their knowledge of our previous marriage, and they will say, “I thought you had one child,” or “I thought you had two children.”
We immediately correct them by saying, “We have three children.”
When we married, what was his became mine, and what was mine became his. This is how we blended our families.
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