Who am I?
Mum, step mum, partner… me? From happily single to girlfriend, step mum, dog mum, mum, fiancé all in the space of a few years (and throw covid pandemic in to the mix) along the way I seem to have lost me. Who I am anymore? From the minute I wake up to when I go to sleep, plus the multiple times I wake up at night I’m a mum of a toddler that needs my attention 24/7. When my step kids are with us, I’m a step mum that has to navigate my way around their life. How to be a step mum?… still working on it. Firm but fair, parent but not overstep the line, get them to respect you and listen without being overbearing. Be their mum in the house without actually being their mum. They have one of those. A partner. Do we still have time to date each other? A conversation that doesn’t involve the kids. Include being a daughter, sister, friend. Who exactly am I now? Will I ever actually know me again? Probably not but it’s just the new version of me and maybe every now and again...