The public display of affection is a topic I wanted to touch on briefly. Careful but don’t be unnatural. Your stepchildren when they see their mother being shown affection can stir up an emotional mine field in them. They may have known only acrimony in their parent’s marriage. And when they see closeness or just holding hands resentments may take hold. “Why couldn’t you have done that with Dad?” if you had been more attentive to each other you could have stayed together and we might have had a happy home, instead of a broken one might be one of their thoughts. I can write a thousand thoughts here about the physicality between you and your wife and how it affects your stepchildren and no two situations are alike but don’t try to teach your stepchildren about how you are doing the right thing because they will see right through it as they did their biological family life.
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