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I Always Thought My Stepmom Hated Me. Then I Learned the Truth (Men’s Health)

Karen Clemmer 4/7/208:18 PM

By Scott Hochkiss, April 6, 2020, Men’s Health

I had no idea how much it would change me.

When I was five, my parents divorced. Shortly after, my father met Sandy, first at a cocktail party and then again at a tennis league for single 30-somethings around Portland, Maine. She was brilliant, anxious, fast-talking, and from old Chicago money. They were engaged within two years.

Sandy was a perfectionist and held us, her family, to the same standards. She placed yellow Post-it to-do lists around the house, sent my new stepbrother and me to etiquette classes (our dog wasn’t spared, either), and could cut me to shreds with a single remark and gesture to my father: “He’s wearing that?”

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https://www.menshealth.com/hea...ng-childhood-trauma/

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Tammy IngramMember

I absolutely loved this article and cannot thank you enough. I loved it so much, I posted it to my nonprofit's FB page for everyone to read and be blessed, along with sending it to my son. Keep writing; you're gifted and amazing!

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