Most stepfamilies have this period where they're trying to not be a stepfamily.

大多数继父家庭都有这个时期，他们试图不成为继父家庭。

You may go into the stepfamily as a stepparent and assume you're going to be something.

你可能会以继父母的身份进入继父母家庭，并假设你会有所作为。

Don't expect them to be where you are with your partner recognising it takes, probably four years as the average, for a stepfamily to form.

不要指望他们会和你的伴侣一样认识到形成继家庭通常需要四年时间。

A " stepfamily" is a family where the mother or the father has married again to another person, who is not the mother or father of their children.

“继父家庭” 是母亲或父亲与另一个人再次结婚的家庭， 该人不是孩子的母亲或父亲。

We would call him the " stepfather." So, a stepfamily is a family that either the parents divorced and remarried – one of the parents divorced and remarried – or perhaps the person was never married before, had a child (the woman) and then married.

我们会称他为“继父” 。所以，继父家庭是父母离婚再婚的家庭——其中一方父母离婚再婚——或者这个人以前从未结过婚， 有一个孩子（女人）， 然后已婚。