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Care & Feeding, February 3 2024: "I Was the Mistress. I Never Wanted to Be Stepmom."

Because why be a member of the family when you could be a homewrecker?

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Rachel Wildavsky
Mar 10, 2024
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Link to original letter here.

My take: To recap, for seven years, the LW had an affair with the married father of two daughters. When his wife found out, the marriage ended and she moved into the father’s new house.

The daughters are now adults. The younger has cut her father off. The older has “admittedly worked very h…

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