Blended family stress
Does anyone else find the whole ‘blended family’ dynamic really exhausting sometimes? We have 4 wonderful girls between us (11, 8, 5 and 6 months old) and most of the time it’s SO lovely being together - they all get on really well (with normal sister bickering but that’s to be expected!) and all love their new baby sister to bits. But some days (like today) just make me want to run and hide!!! I have a splitting headache from the bickering, the constant demands, the jealousy, everything really… it makes me question all being together every other weekend, but then some weekends I love every second and feel incredibly sad when two SDs go back to their mums. Can anyone else relate? 😩
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Yes I can relate very well, I've got my two SS's here (13 and 8) at the moment and they are just constantly arguing and being annoying to each other and their sister (my daughter) 22 months. Some days I feel so mean because all I feel like I'm doing it just telling them to stop and I get very frustrated at them xx
Completely relate. It's such a fine balancing act. My two spend more time here with SD spending just every other weekend and although they get on wonderfully, it leads to lots of imbalance around consequences and squabbles and element of "fairness" etc
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Personally I love having my two SD’s here, but they are 17 and 14 so much older and they chat to me about their friends / boyfriends, etc. I have more trouble with my own 2 (10 B and 7 G) squabbling and fighting 😂 Girls are harder work though, I’ll give you that! xx