I have really enjoyed reading all of your comments on this article. It inspires me to keep writing about the difficulties in being a step-parent in today’s world.
Well, I have been enjoying being a Grandmother. My fiancee’s youngest is now nearly nineteen years of age, and well, as a result of her fathers’ refusal to step in a be a father to her, she is now living with the father of her beautiful three-year-old daughter, and has a one-year-old daughter, with yet another one on the way.
She has turned out to be a great mother, but because she was left to figure things out on her own struggles every day in an adult world that she wasn’t as prepared for, as she had originally thought. She has not graduated high school due to the demands of being a teen Mom, but she has been learning to cook ethnic foods and has become quite proficient at it. She has learned also that just because you didn’t like to have to do it at your parent’s house doesn’t mean that you will be able to skip out on it when you’re on your own, or living with your baby’s daddy’s family. Everyone pitches in when you are a multi-member family with no excuses as to why you can’t or shouldn’t have to do the same thing. She digs right in now and does a very good job.
