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mumzie1212 (959.7 days ago)
it really depends on your situation. my dad died when i was a baby, my mom got remarried when i was 8. my step-father is the only dad i`ve ever known and the best dad i ever could have asked for. he has never treated me any differently than his own. my mom was the same to my step-brother and step-sister(their mom is not in the picture). it depends on your situation. my son has a step-mother and step-father. he has a very different relationship with them than i do with my step-father because both his father and i are both very involved in his life. just remember that loving them and treating them as your own is the best you can do. i am soooo thankful that my ex found someone that loves my son ALMOST as much as i do and if anything ever happened to me that she would do everything in her power to raise him the way that i would want him to grow up. i know some other moms would be jealous but i`m not at all. he knows he only has one mom and one dad but both my husband and his step-mom are both parent figures to him. he even has different set of rules for each house and i am firm on respecting the rules they have set for in their household and vice-versa. he also has a little sister with them and one on the way with us. good luck to you, i hope i could be of help:)

JustTha5ofUs (959.8 days ago)
i have 2 children from previous and a new baby with my hubby, and he treats them all the same, one is 9 , one is 7 , and the new baby is 5 months

soon2be3 (959.9 days ago)
Not trying to start an argument here at all, so please don`t take it this way...you may not be their true mother, but you are a mother figure. My mom was not active in my life, so I desperately wanted my step-mom to want to be my mom too. I think its important to respect the other mom and never...no matter how bad she is...talk bad about her in front of the children. I guess every situation is a little different.

soon2be3 (959.9 days ago)
Make sure that what ever you do for your own children, you do for your step-children. I harbor serious hard feelings about the way I was treated differently from my step-sisters. I was a really good kid and it hurt to see my sisters show up with new things and I didn`t get them. Or for my step-mom to take an active interest in their lives, boyfriends, doing their hair for proms. If you can`t be there for them 100% emotionally, finacially, and physically...you will break their hearts.



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