Whereas she makes it look simple together with her massive, blended brood alongside husband Travis Barker and their seven children, rising up in a blended household wasn’t precisely the eldest Kardashian’s cup of tea.

Whereas showing on the most recent episode of sister Khloé Kardashian‘s Khloe in Wonderland podcast,  Kourtney mirrored on the difficulties of getting together with stepparent Caitlyn Jenner — who they each known as “Bruce” when speaking concerning the previous — following mother Kris’ divorce from their late father, Robert Kardashian.

“I believe one thing that Bruce did so effectively, or I can converse for myself, however Bruce by no means tried to be dad,” Khloé stated. “And I at all times appreciated and revered that.”

“That wasn’t my expertise,” Kourtney replied, whereas trying again on their distinctive household dynamic.” “However, possibly that is why it grew to become your expertise… so, grateful for that for you.”

“Actually?” a shocked Khloé requested. “He tried to be dad for you?”

“Not dad, however tried to be controlling and bossy, and would inform me sure mates cannot come over,” Kourtney recalled.

Khloé provided that whereas Kourtney’s expertise could not have been the perfect rising up, it additionally could have helped inform the best way she operates as a stepmom to Barker’s children now.

Their late father’s fiancé, Denise, nonetheless, is an instance of somebody each Kourtney and Khloé stated acquired it proper as a stepmom, enrolling Khloe in etiquette lessons and instructing the ladies the best way to be “younger girls.”

“I believe having that actually constructive expertise with Denise actually helped me too,” Kourtney shared.

“Is that why you did not join with Bruce?” Khloé requested. “Effectively, yeah,” Kourtney replied.

“I simply thought you did not like him as a result of he was changing dad — not that he did, nobody may change dad — however that is simply why I believed you did not like him,” Khloé contemplated.

“It is so bizarre that you just had such a unique expertise. I believe it is ‘trigger you had been youthful,” Kourtney puzzled.

“I had such a unique expertise. However possibly mother had a chat with him. Perhaps your retraction taught him one thing,” Khloé provided. “So possibly it was a lesson for everybody.”

Kourtney stated she and Jenner would have yelling wars at first too, which led her to in the end transfer in together with her father.

“Oh yeah, I might be like. ‘I wanna name my dad,’ after which he would really like, grasp up the telephone. We might have yelling wars,” Kourtney recalled.

“That was not my expertise in any respect, that is loopy,” Khloé quipped. “See, you may reside in the identical home being raised by the identical mother and father and never even know, and have completely totally different expertise.”

“That is why I moved in with dad,” Kourtney revealed. “I had no clue,” Khloé replied.

As for a way she is as a stepmom to Travis’ three children, Landon, 21, Alabama, 19, and his step-daughter Atiana, 26, Kourtney stated she got here to understand that she would not should be the disciplinarian.

“I am not the position that has to make it an enormous deal,” Kourtney stated of parenting teenage and grownup step children… “I really feel prefer it’s in the easiest way, I may be there to be supportive or actually in any means that they need me to be, for as a lot or as little as they need.”

After saying that she heard it takes 4 years to full combine and mix a household, Kourtney declared that she and Barker are virtually there, celebrating their third marriage ceremony anniversary this month following their Might 2022 courthouse nuptials.

“It stated it actually, actually takes 4 years to really feel such as you’re all on the identical boat and actually a household and doing this collectively,” Kourtney shared. “However I keep in mind the occasions when it did not really feel that means. “Or it looks like, ‘your squad versus me squad,’ or ‘we do issues this fashion and also you do issues this fashion.’”

“One 12 months left,” she quipped.