9 blended family questions
For personal / provocative
- 1
What is a hard thing about your children, or mine, that you find awkward to raise?
- 2
Which of these is the trickiest part of our family setup?
- The ex
- Different rules in different houses
- Loyalty
- Money
- Time
- Where we all sit at the table
- 3
What do you want my children to call you, and have you said?
- 4
What do you need from me when your ex is being difficult?
- 5
What do you think the children say about us in the other house?
- 6
When do you feel like an outsider in your own family, and what would help?
- 7
What tradition could be ours, belonging to nobody's old life?
- 8
What have you had to give up to make this family work?
- 9
What do you love about how the children are together?
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