Step Mother:   My current husband and I dated one another in our early 20's now, 48 years later as widowers we meet again.  I having never been a mother nor parent at 69 was gifted with my husbands six adult children.  Now how bad can that be???   These people are not from a divorced enviornment.  Usally divorced environments are emotionally hosstile.  I was quite surprised to experience these types of hostilities within my husbands children.  This has been three years in the making for me.