I would compare my blended family to two companies that are merging together. This was brought to my attention by one of my bosses who referred to an employee at the bank I work for as an evil step child. Of course at the time I laughed my ass off. As I thought about it more it occurred to me that I'm going through the same process at work as I am at home. My husband and I are the owners and our kids are the employees. We made the decision to merge two "companies” together and the "employees" are not happy. Now granted no one will loose their job like they probably will where I work but some will loose their “titles” or some of their roles within the “company.” This is not making anyone happy. As the owners we are sticking to our decision. We have many meetings, one on one and groups, assuring them that we will work through this together and come out as a bigger, stronger company. This process will take years within our family but at work things will move a lot faster because at home you have to care about feelings and who might get hurt in a company if your feelings are hurt no one is going to care that’s just the way things are. My question to everyone is how are you dealing with your “company’s” feelings? Are things going how you would like them to go? Being the adult doesn’t always make you the smart one. Listen to your “employees.” They may have some pretty good ideas.