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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

I'm not ready to be a stepmom

If I marry, I get a 16-year-old who can barely take care of herself.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Monday, January 12, 2009 09:09 PM

    Great advice. Probably make a poor husband anyway.

    I have seldom seen such direct honest and sound advice as what you have given the woman not ready to be a step mom. If she is not up to the task (which is not her job) then she should move on. Further, it seems to me that he has been outsourcing the care and raising of his daughter for way too long. A man without the capacity to be a good dad (His teen aged daughter lived a few floors down with a nanny and her rarely saw her? Really?) would more than likely be a poor husband to her.

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