Were you or are you in a family where you were a step-parent or step-child, and if so, how did the relationship go?

Were you or are you in a family where you are either a step-parent or a step-child? How did the relationship go? Was there tension? Was it a great relationship? Did you have issues and how did you work them out?

If you were a step-child, did you resent your step-parent for creating rules that you had to live by or were they totally hands off? If you were a step-parent did your relationship with your significant other suffer because of parenting issues? How did the stepfamily relationship change when time went on?