Watching our blended family children hang out and laugh is just gorgeous!

[Chelsea26]

Just sitting at our garden table with DP watching my children and his children sit inside on the couch together having a chat and a laugh together after cleaning away after dinner.

This is after my eldest son and his daughter have already spent a couple of hours chatting in the garden earlier this afternoon and my youngest son and his son wandered down to the shops together today.

Feeling very lucky and happy that they all get on and like each other and thought I’d post as often on here you hear the bad side of ‘blended families’ and ours seems, for the most part, to work.

The kids are
DSD 17
DSS 15
DS1 15
DS2 13

I mean God help us next year when we have A-levels + GCSE’s x 2 but for now I’m enjoying watching them hang out and be friends!

Your teenagers are parents?

Are you missing out some children?

That's a lovely post. Nice to hear something positive about blended families for a change.

Oh my! Sorry, you mean your partner’s children 🤣 it read like your eldest son has a son etc etc….

I’m happy for you that they all get on! 🥰

Just why this daft attention seeking?!

Why is this confusing? Not being funny - I can’t see where I’ve not been clear.

My partner has a girl and a boy and I have two boys and none of them are parents!!!

Attention seeking? What the actual ever loving fuck?

I didn't get the first two replies either

I understood the post

Where on earth did you get that from?

OP, what a lovely thread. Makes a nice change from all the angsty posts today!

How about you read my second comment, where I explain…. It was badly written to be honest. “My eldest son and his daughter” for example.

Sounds absolutely lovely. You must be so pleased! Do you all live together?

Ha! Oh yeah fair enough! No DP’s daughter and my son! Soz for confusion - please let this be a nice thread!! 🙏

What lovely, genuine, uplifting post. X
Get it removed immediately!!

Is it a rose garden?

We all are here some of the time so sometimes it’s just me and DP, sometimes there’s 4 of us and sometimes there’s 6 of us.

We do have a routine but it is quite fluid especially in the holidays

Of course!

I was just chatting to my dp about someone I know who has four children and her partner has three. I’m sure it’s not all plain sailing when the nine of them are together, but they seem very happy, like the Waltons or something 😆 better than hating eachother for sure! Long may it last! 😊

You are so lucky op. When our blended kids were young there was so much jealousy between them.. it’s only now they’re in their late 20’s that they get on. So lovely!

That is nice. Might be a bit awkward if the boys and girls get on too well and get romantic notions though.

Nice to hear something positive re: blended families

There are loads of stories from parents claiming that their "blended" children are ecstatically happy with the situation. It's stories from the actual children of these families that are very rarely positive.

I’ve just gone in to top up our drinks and found out what they’re talking about.

You’re on a island on your own and you can bring
3 Items (you’re allowed bundles eg phone and charger or golf clubs and balls count as one)
3 series
3 films
&
3 songs

It’s almost a whole new thread!

Mine were

Items
phone and charger
kindle
a really comfy bed

Series
Ted Lasso
Greys
Prison Break

Films
Dirty Dancing
Top Gun
Usual Suspects

Songs (this was the hardest!)
Mr Jones and Me
Thunder Road
When the Right One Comes Along

They’re now putting them all in the group chat so they remember

Argh no!! Nothing like that going on (and hopefully never!)

The one girl has had a lovely boyfriend for a year or so now

If you had read the first paragraph and then the second, plus the title, it was perfectly clear she was talking about DPs daughter. i really don’t understand how you could misunderstand, unless you read that sentence without having taken in any other information in the post.

OP this is so nice! We do only hear the horror stories. Hopefully they’ll remain friends.

Fair point and I would never claim that they are ‘ecstatically happy’ but right now they’re having a nice evening with each other and I’m pleased and grateful.

There are many evening where they are up in their rooms and we only see them for dinner but we live mostly calmly without arguments and none of them have ever said they don’t want to come here and I’m taking that as a positive too.