If you're not looking to write a personal account, you could consider a more general or fictionalized take on the topic. In this case, you might:
Modern blended family dramas excel at one thing old films avoided: logistics. Marriage Story (2019) is not a film about a blended family per se, but it is the necessary prequel. It shows the gut-wrenching divorce that creates the "blend." Director Noah Baumbach spends an excruciating amount of screen time on custody schedules, who gets Thanksgiving, and how to fold a sofa bed. This attention to the boring, painful details makes the later act of blending feel heroic. When a step-parent in a modern film successfully remembers a kid’s allergy or shows up to a soccer game, the audience feels the weight of that choice—because they saw the ten hours of legal negotiation that made that moment possible. That Time I Got My Stepmom Pregnant -Devil-s Fi...
If you're not looking to write a personal account, you could consider a more general or fictionalized take on the topic. In this case, you might:
Modern blended family dramas excel at one thing old films avoided: logistics. Marriage Story (2019) is not a film about a blended family per se, but it is the necessary prequel. It shows the gut-wrenching divorce that creates the "blend." Director Noah Baumbach spends an excruciating amount of screen time on custody schedules, who gets Thanksgiving, and how to fold a sofa bed. This attention to the boring, painful details makes the later act of blending feel heroic. When a step-parent in a modern film successfully remembers a kid’s allergy or shows up to a soccer game, the audience feels the weight of that choice—because they saw the ten hours of legal negotiation that made that moment possible.