Reply to Can step-parents ever really love and prioritize kids the way parents do?

Forum Index » Parenting -- Special Concerns

Reply to "Can step-parents ever really love and prioritize kids the way parents do?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OP here - didn't realize this had been moved.  I wasn't envisioning that a step-parent should have to act exactly like a a parent, I understand its a different role.  But I'd imagine their lives are still hugely impacted.

I'd just been thinking about for all the conflict with DH, at least we both at our core want what's best for our kids as a top priority.  I can't imagine being married to someone who wasn't my (3 very young) kids' dad and having to negotiate with them on whether paying for xyz therapy was worth it or them be resentful that i needed to go to bed early b/c the 3yo has sleep issues and just letting him cry it out won't fix it or that I don't think some random nanny can manage them all 3 for a week for us to go on an adults only vacation.

Basically, all the things that I used to think were totally fine and doable and reasonable before I was a parent and could see (and emotionally feel) how not straight forward all these was even if they'd be "fine".  It seems very stressful to try to expect someone to accept all these things as a parent when they're not in the role of parent (widow where new husband is only dad etc)[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics