Are you guys fond of your step mother/father?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Radio Lady's thread spurred this one.

My stepmother and i are very close. everyone in her workplace knows of me as her daughter. i say i have two mothers etc. I have known her since i was born but she married my dad around the time that I was 13. My father is bipolar and hasn't worked in the last two decades or so. I am deeply grateful to my step mom for sticking around.

My stepfather and I are not very close. But we are fond of each other and civil/polite etc. He is very sane in a family of not so sane. I appreciate this.

My half brother is 10 this year. I love him to death.

[Inchworm]

1. I hated my stepmother

It wasn't until recently that I realized the hell I put her through while she was trying to help me be a better person. oops...

We are cool to talk now though, after many years.

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. well glad you resolved it

[raccoon]

3. I loved my stepfather. He was more of a father to me than my bio father

ever thought about being.

I wished I'd acquired him as a stepfather earlier. I and my sibs were adults when my mother married him.

I still miss him. He died seven years ago.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. ...

:hug:

[Beer Snob-50]

5. have a problem with my stepmother

she won't call to see how things are going. when i call her, she doesn't seem to care about how my family is doing but will go on about her stuff. she brags continually about her new husbands grandchildren but doesn't know much about her current ones. my brothers son graduated from high school this year and she didn't acknowledge it. nor when my wife's mother and sister died this past year. anyways.............

[AllegroRondo]

6. He's OK, but we're not close.

But my mom and dad were married until he died, and I was 26 at the time. When she re-married, I was 29. So he's never really been a step father, just the guy my mom married. Hes a nice enough guy, and mom is happy, but I dont see him often.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. I don't have a stepparents and never will, since my parents are both dead.

But my nephew is stepfather to three kids, aged 11, 9 and 6. They have a wonderful relationship. My nephew is 27 and several years younger than his wife, but I am proud of the great job he does of parenting.

[Left Is Write]

8. I don't have stepparents, but my oldest daughter does.

She likes my husband well enough, but they've definitely had some terrible conflict. She has sometimes talked to him about personal things, but I don't think they will ever be close.

She does not get along with her stepmother at all.

[reyd reid reed]

9. I was very fond of my stepmother...

Don't know as I could say I was very close to her...she and my father married when I was 20, I think, but she was a good woman, made my father happy, and cared about us. That's enough.

[Rhythm]

10. My stepdad is a great guy...

Mom remarried about 3 years after my dad died, and the guy she found is terrific. Bobby and i get along well, and he treats my mom and grandmother (who's lived with my mom since 1986) like he's been part of their family his whole life. He's a true gentleman, and very warm with us 'kids' (i'm 40; my younger brother is 32).

Bobby has two sons, neither of whom i know very well, since they live in close proximity, and i don't. I know that both have gone through an assortment of traumas, but have turned into good guys, and have expanded the extended family nicely.

[NMDemDist2]

11. my step mother is all the family I have

I cut ties with my biological mother 15 years ago and never looked back.

Stepmom and I are very close and I'm grateful she's in my life

:hi:

[skygazer]

12. My father has been married five times

My mother was his second wife. I have gotten along well with the succeeding three wives and the present one, I'm very fond of. She's a good, kind person and has done a lot to reconcile him with his kids and encourage him to reach out to his grandkids. I've had more issues with my dad than any of my stepmoms.

My sister died a year ago and was buried in the same plot as my mom. The landscaping on the plot had become overgrown and my stepmom spent a good deal of time cleaning it up, cleaning my mom's stone and planting some small flowering plants near it - one for each of her six kids. I thought that was one of the most caring and sensitive things I'd ever heard of.

Incidentally, my kids adore their stepmom and so do I - she's one of my best friends. The kids call us both Mom - I'm California-mom and she's Connecticut-mom. :)