I lost my mother and sister in a car accident when I was fourteen. That left my father and myself. My father remarried a woman 13 years younger than him - who he adored. They had a son when I was 19. Throughout this time I was left alone alot. My stepmother had no maternal feelings towards me. Who wants some teenager hanging around? She was never openly rude, just disinterested. She married the man, not the family and that's what she wanted to focus on.
I moved out when I was 18. My father loved me but I didn't feel as though I belonged in this new family.