Me and my younger sisters(20 & 18) have recently discussed how we feel growing up we didn’t “fit in” with either our mum, her partner and our half sister or our dad, his wife and two young children. Our parents split when I was 6, so my sisters were too young to see the horrors of how that went down. But both our mum & dad have treated their other children completely different, they have taken their children on holidays without us, spent a lot more on them for Christmas and birthdays & more so our dad not gave us the time and effort we should have. We just felt kind of there whilst we were growing up, not really convenient in their families.
now we are older, we realise it a lot more. I have a DC of my own and since he has gotten bigger (he’s only 2) we aren’t welcome round my dads anymore as my stepmum finds it too stressful.
I just wondered if anybody else felt like this when their parents remarried and had other children? Did you ever let your parents know that’s how you felt?