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SECOND MARRIAGE A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE
4 CommentsOur family was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday in a column called “On the Couch.” It is a series that comes out every Sunday in the Style section about how couples met. Our story was titled, “Second Marriage, a Second Chance at Love.” It was a really nice write up and we were all so excited that we ran out and bought four newspapers. Today I looked up the article online so that I could write about it here with a link to it and to also send it to all my friends and family who live on the East coast.
The interesting thing about reading an article on-line is that you can read what people comment about it. There were 14 comments and I was very curious to see what people wrote. Most were positive but some were so vitriolically cynical I was stunned. There’s some pretty sick people out there. No one said anything bad about my husband or my kids, just me. I was accused of being shallow, materialistic, lazy and stupid. Some of the comments must have been so bad there were withdrawn because they violated the paper’s policy. It was really mean and totally uncalled for. My oldest daughter was reading over my shoulder as I recoiled in shocked disgust. She reassured me by saying, quite profoundly, “You know, Mom, happiness is boring to some people. Conflict is what sells. Whenever I have to write an essay about something in school, I always make it up because otherwise, the truth would just be too boring.” Well, said, my darling daughter and how true.
Published on February 1, 2010 · Filed under: BLENDED FAMILIES; Tagged as: BLENDED FAMILIES, remarriage
4 Responses to “SECOND MARRIAGE A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE”
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Kathryn said on February 1st, 2010 at 9:14 pm
It is a happy story! It makes me happy to read about it…..Congratulations on finding a blend that works.
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Well done – it’s so nice to be acknowledged, and it sounds like you guys really deserve it.
As for people’s homophobic, judgemental, cruddy comments, my sense is that those commenters are just trolls with issues. You can see by home many like/don’t like scores they got that your story has been really positively received. And in my experience any media story with a stepmom featured anywhere in it is likely to be slammed hard.
I really enjoyed reading about you guys.
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Katie said on February 2nd, 2010 at 4:46 am
I’m with ‘Erneim’ — “Sounds like a real shady story to me.”
JK!
Geez! commenters kill me. Sometimes I want to reach through the screen and throttle them. Brava to you for being willing to put yourself out there to inspire others who might be in the same boat (and who may not even know it yet!)
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Carol said on February 2nd, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Thanks for all your great comments and positive feedback. Ours is a happy story and I never take that for granted.
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