Civil War
Over the last two months of our RVing tour of the US, we have spent most of it learning about the history of the formation of the United States of America, in Virginia, viewing historical landmarks in the capital city of Washington, considering the impact of the battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, and it has been fascinating. The rest of the time we were involved in the prenuptial activities and the wedding of my husband’s son. My mother suffered an “evil” stepmother, so I have always had an issue with calling myself the “stepmother” of Steven, the groom, and his brother Mike, his best man. Besides, their mom is alive and very much a part of their lives, so they have never had any need of a second mother. If you are divorced, and remarried, you might understand how complicated past, present and future family relationships can turn out to be, and how painful it is to meet up with estranged first spouses and put on brave faces for the sake of a chi...