Pseudo-stepson and Christmas. Wwyd? Is this weird ?

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I have a DD. She's 11. Her dad has a new partner whose son is 17. He's a great boy, he's brilliant with DD and an all round lovely chap.

So, DD is with her dad for Christmas Day. They are having a family dinner. She will come to me at 8pm-ish. They have been talking about Christmas. They are all going to visit my ex's family on Boxing Day. Stepson doesn't want to go.

So DD told him he could come here.

I don't have a problem with him here on Boxing Day or coming down on Christmas night and staying over. Is it weird to have him here?

I think it's a little unconventional but a great idea overall if everyone agrees to it.

One thing I regret about my own childhood with stepsisters is that it was always them coming into our lives. We lived with their dad (my stepdad) and my mum obv so they came to visit. It's only now, 25 years on, that I realize I know diddly squat about their lives. I never saw the inside of the house they lived in with their mum, never knew their friends or what posters they had on their walls.

I think we would've had a richer friendship growing up if the relationship wasn't so one-directional.

So I say go for it!

eliza I've just posted on the Christmas threads about dreading how we'll split it this year... And it's the same evet year! (And I'm the child, it's my parents who are divorced!)

Just had to chip in and say the way you speak about him is lovely, fair warmed the cockles of my old heart, so it did!