'You will come second to their child, and that can hurt.'
Last week Princess Beatrice – famous for a) being the queen’s granddaughter and b) allegedly slicing Ed Sheeran’s face open while pretending to knight James Blunt – got engaged. And so next year, she'll have a wedding, a husband and, because her fiancé is already a father, like 1 in 3 people in the UK, she'll have a stepchild.
For Beatrice it won’t be so much of a problem, but it’s really important to think about how marrying a step-parent will affect your finances. When my partner and I got married we decided to have joint finances, which means that I pay for Kit’s clothes and food. I’m comfortable with that, but it does mean I have less to spend on myself.
I’ll be totally honest. If I were a friend of Princess Beatrice’s I’d be telling her to think twice about whether she wants to become a step-parent. It’s really, really hard. At the moment my step-daughters have decided that I’m the reason that their parents split up, and very often won’t speak to me.
Miriam* is stepmother to a boy and a girl aged four and seven. She has been with her husband for three and a half years.
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