🏠What it means to have grown up with blended family adjustment issues
You became an unwilling immigrant in your own home.
When your parents split and remarried, your world did not just change—it shattered into two irreconcilable realities. You became a shapeshifter, suddenly expected to belong with strangers who had authority over you while grieving the loss of your original family structure. You had to learn new rules, new dynamics, and pretend to love people you barely knew.
Your home kept reshuffling—new step-parents, new siblings, new rules, new everything. You learned that love comes with an expiration date and that family is not permanent. Every time you started to feel settled, another change would come, teaching you that nothing stays the same for long.