I have been with my significant other for 6 years. We have a unique blended family. When we met I had a daughter that was 1 1/2. Her father was not in the picture hardly at all. He had a daughter that was 2 1/2 and her mother had left her to enlist in the Navy when she was 1 1/2 yrs old. We were both single parents with young daughters. We took it slow and evntually got to the point where we were ready to move in together. It was a long hard struggle but a few yrs after we became a REAL family.Then we had a baby boy. I can honestly say that I love ALL my kids exactly the same.