I have visited Steptalk many times and learned many valuable things from you ladies and now it's time to open up and share the hard times that made me seek out this sanctuary in the first place.

I'm a mother of 4 grown sons, ages 21-27. I'm the stepmother of 2. The boy is 20, the girl child is 17. I met their dad 5 years ago and we got married last summer, after my youngest child left the nest. We waited to cohabit so we didn't have to mix children,and to keep things less complicated.