Stepsibings are blended together through marriage, not blood. It's usually a gory blend. The result is one blood child, now known as a stepsibling, is mashed and sometimes pounded into to another blood child's life. One of the toughest parts of the mixmaster–aka the blended family–is getting the blood children to accept living together as step brothers and sisters. Awful things happen like one child taking half of the other step-sibling's room. Disaster follows that can last for decades.
Stepparents, caught in the euphoria of their own new romance, many times blindly, leave the next step of their relationship (step-parenting) out of their parental minds.
The big question is how will their unrelated blood children love or even tolerate each other–let alone share half a room.
These head over heels stepparent-lovers foolishly expect their own blood children to function as a loving stepfamily. This instant family (just like instant mashed potatoes if you ever ate them) is revolting–or just revolts.
