Not necessarily. My late uncle married a divorced woman with a young son and they went on to have four daughters together in a long and happy marriage. Both also prospered in professional careers. The five children are all married, successful, and on good terms with each other.
True. I have a late uncle whose wife was pregnant with another man’s child when they married. He stayed with her and sired four more children with her, and created a great family, even though that first kid was not genetically his. I am privileged to know/have known them all.
My niece did that. She was divorced with two kids (her husband/bio-dad cheated on her). She met a guy who had been raised by a stepdad who he adored and that was his example of a good man, not the dad who left his family when he was little. So, they married, and it’s worked out great. The kids are in their 20’s and are doing great. My grandniece considers him her father and has little to do with her biological dad.
It can work u Der the right circumstances.