#blended-family

#blended-family

I stay with my mom during the week and split weekends between her and my dad. From all appearances, my parents get along well. Sometimes my mom will even join all of us for dinner, and she's occasionally watched my siblings for my dad and Inez. I'm super close with my mom. I get along great with Inez, and respect her as my stepmother, but I don't really share personal information with her.

"It was always like, 'Whatever you're into and when you want to have sex, you just let me know and we'll get birth control,'" she said. "It was really healthy, and it made me feel like I was allowed to discover my sexuality on my own, which I think is such a gift," Johnson added.

We both knew there was something special between us. We spoke the language of grief, of solo parents, of young widows who'd lost their forever person to cancer.

I don't read the stuff online much, and sometimes I get the sense that people perpetuate the idea of... they wanna find something negative to talk about.