Hey, this is Dakota. And this is Keon, your favorite OK-Store Time host, and we've got some great

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keep the show alive. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. I suggested bringing my

stepdaughter to therapy, and everyone got furious at me. What's wrong with therapy? I hope my title

made some sense, but if not, I will try to explain. Eight years ago, I 33 female now, met a young

widower, 35 male now, who had a six-year-old daughter, or teen female now. He and his late wife

had technically been separated at the time of her passing, so he was ready to move on. However, I believed his daughter needed help, and a few times before we got married, I said as much. By the way, this comes from Cotillo. And if you want to submit your story stories, go to the R.Slau-O-K story time, subordidate. I'm Sophia. I'm Carly. I'm Kian. And we're here to give good advice, goofly, but we don't have to the R. slash okay story time subordidate. I'm Sophia. I'm Carly.

I'm Keon.

And we're here to give good advice,

goofily, but we don't have all the answers. We only know what we'd do. So let us know what you would do in the comments. And O.P. says, I was told she was just more reserved by nature and that she would come around to me in time. This was not just my husband saying this.

His whole family said the same thing.

They told me the proof was in the fact. to me in time. This was not just my husband saying this. His whole family said the same thing.

They told me the proof was in the fact that she was not being blatantly rude or disrespectful

and was not throwing tantrums or acting out. I tried to build a good relationship with my stepdaughter,

but the more time went on, the less it seemed likely or possible. She was not outright angry, but she would not open up to me or willingly spend any one-on-one

time with me.

She did spend one-on-one time with her dad, but at a certain point, when he and I had our first

child, this also changed.

Once I was pregnant with our first child, her behavior did change. She started

getting angry, started cursing at me, and yelling at her dad for having another baby. She told

him he betrayed her mom and that she was not going to accept our child as a sibling or accept

him being a dad to someone else's baby. Therapy. So much therapy. So much therapy.

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