00:00You have a blended family.
00:01Leah, you were married before, and you have two children.
00:04You're raising six kids together.
00:06But there are actually five parents involved.
00:08Break it down for us.
00:10Correct.
00:11So I was married previously, and we had two children together.
00:15And Terry.
00:16And I had two children by two different women
00:19in previous relationships.
00:21And then we married, and we had two of our own.
00:24All right.
00:25Now, Terry, how do you make that work?
00:29It's really about the kids.
00:30It can be difficult at times with all the different personalities
00:33and different ideas or pictures we have painted in our head
00:36for the kids in the future.
00:37But as long as we do it from a place of love
00:40and we put the kids at the forefront,
00:41that's how we make it work pretty much.
00:44Definitely.
00:44Leah, you also said you had some special challenges
00:47dealing with the two mothers of your husband's oldest children
00:49in the beginning.
00:50Tell us about that, and how did you overcome that?
00:53I think for women, it's a lot different than men.
00:56So Terry and my ex-husband, they hit it off.
00:59They had one conversation, and it was all love going forward.
01:02Us women, we deal differently.
01:04We have different personalities.
01:06We are very protective of our children.
01:10So it's a little bit harder in the beginning.
01:13And we have multiple mothers, so it's just three mothers,
01:16and we're all trying to just get along and figure things out.
01:19So I had to learn to deal with both of them
01:23and have individual relationships with them.
01:26It's not just like, oh, there's one way to make this work.
01:30So that was a challenge in the beginning.
01:32But we're at a great place now.
01:35We've worked it all out, and we all co-parent together.
01:38That is awesome.
01:39Terry, what was your relationship like with Leah's ex-husband?
01:42Why do you think it was so smooth, if you will,
01:43for the gentlemen to form a relationship versus the ladies?
01:48For men, I mean, for us in particular,
01:50I think it was just about respect.
01:52You know, I came into it with a mindset like,
01:54I'm going to respect him, and these are his children first.
01:57I'm just kind of filling in in his absence, you know?
02:00So I approached it as such.
02:01And I come from a blended family, so it was easy for me
02:04to, you know, relate that to him,
02:06that I cared about his kids, you know, first.
02:08And, you know, he was, I mean, we just,
02:10I guess we have personalities that made it easy
02:13for us to get along with no drama.
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