Your new blended family

[Melrose Plant 1]

Some of you, I realize are married for the first time, but for many of you, like me, this is the second go-round.

I would like to hear some of your experiences with your new SE Asians spouses and how your family is accepting them.

As for me, my life is far from ideal, and our newly re-arranged family has its share of problems, but sometimes, it's just perfect. See photo.

Incidentally, for those of you who may have stumbled in from another certain thread, that bottle contains 100% sữa mẹ.

Edited February 15, 2009 by Melrose Plant

[Jasman0717 9]

Life is good even though Claudeth is completely crazy

[luckytxn 2,264]

I am not blending in with all Trang's family here perfectly to say the least. My few family could care less. Some people I thought were friends are now no more but others are still.

[Melrose Plant 1]

I posted this thread on a whim last night, after snapping that photo of the Two Brothers together. Then I got summoned to come to bed, so I didn't have a lot of time to elaborate.

My elder son and my wife get along pretty well, actually. He's been talking with her on the webcam for almost as long as I have, after all. He doesn't listen to her very well, but then, he doesn't listen to anyone very well. Certain members of this website can attest to that. He adores his new baby brother, even if we have to constantly remind him that Mister Em isn't yet strong enough to roughhouse with Mister Anh. I may even get him to change a diaper someday.

My parents and wife get along really well. Wife Mai says that my parents have so many Vietnamese values, and I suppose that's true. Although Dad says he'd never be able to live in Vietnam, or at least the places he's visited. "Why's that?" I asked, expecting something about the lack of air-conditioning. "The two things I really like to talk about, politics and religion, nobody will talk about here." Fair enough.

That leaves the ex-wife. I guess even that is pretty good. After all, I wouldn't want them to get along really, really well. That might go very badly for me. They are civil to each other, and even generous on a public level. Privately, neither of them understands what I see or ever saw in the other. I trust I don't need to go into greater detail. You probably get the picture.

Those of you with a humorous story, or even a profound story that points out our human-ness, I invite you to post here.

[Jack & Xuan 0]

Thank you for starting this post. I have wanted to read these experiances for some time. There was a post much like this about 6 months ago and it was very good but somehow I lost it or it was moved or something. Having some idea of what to expect based on these postings will help those of us who have not gotten that far in the journey yet.