😬 Solo stepkid time

I survived a week alone with my stepkid, AMA

Confession: I’ve never spent a ton of 1:1 time with my stepkid, even after all these years.

There are many perfectly logical and/or inadvertent reasons why this ended up happening. I thought about listing them all but truthfully they’re irrelevant. Because underlying all those very practical, objective explanations is the only one that matters: I’ve never been comfortable spending time alone with my stepkid. And she’s never been comfortable spending time alone with me either.

Even though we are both, at this point, grown-ass adults who should really be over ourselves by now. But we also have a lot of history, and that’s not so easy to move past. Even if we are grown-ass adults.