A Step by Step Guide to Step Parenting

I never thought I'd be here, but I suppose I should try to make the most of it.

It had never occurred to me that I might, in my thirties, become a step-parent.

In my early twenties, I had, for about a year, dated a man who had three children. The eldest was a teenager, who lived with him in Ireland; and two younger children who lived with their mum in her home country, in Europe but far enough away that the flights were prohibitive…