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Paulette: When we first got married, my expectations were that we raise our children together as
one unit. I never fought of them being separate his kids and my kids. My ideal thing was that
we put this family, juts blend the family together, and we just live happily ever after,
and then I didn't think about all the other stuff in the middle.
Monroe: Whenever there's problems with our kids, my son may do something then I come,
she will tell me about it, then I have to deal with him. So then we end up growing apart
from each other because she's like, "Well, you let your child what you want, I'll let
mines do what I want," and then that's separated us. It wasn't a bond. I got tired to coming
homing hearing it, so does she. Paulette: We got separated for about five-and-a-half
years, and then we started dating again and we handled our relationship, and that's what
brought us together in Pittsburgh. Monroe: Down to Pittsburgh.
Paulette: I would tell somebody that has a blended family that you have stick together.
Monroe: That was our problem, we were never one at that time, was her kids against, and
my kids. Now, it's us, one.