I realise MN is not very step parent-friendly, but I'm going ahead anyway.
After a couple of months of a whirlwind romance with a gorgeous, gorgeous man, his daughter came home from summer camp and we finally met. To be honest, she's a bit of a brat. She clearly only wants her dad for herself, and is not open to me being in her life, at all. (She's 11 by the way).
Anyway, things are kind of fine, I made it clear to her that I wasn't going anywhere and just discretely made inquiries about boarding schools.
All fine, until we go to San Fransisco with the whole family for a wedding planning trip. When we're there DSD is acting incredibly erratically, and long story short, it turns out that she's a TWIN.
Apparently, when DH broke up with his first wife, they each took one of the kids. He moved back to California and she stayed in London.
That's weird right? The kids didn't know about each other, and randomly ended up at the same summer camp. Now I get that they didn't want to tell the twins, otherwise they'd have been shuttling them back and forward, but surely if you're going to marry someone, you should tell them that you've actually got two kids, not one? I feel like he's really broken my trust.
I've now got to go on a weekend long camping trip with BOTH of the little shits. Lucky me.