I grew up with several step-parents in my life, but I am not one.
I'm just wondering if those of you who are step-parents treat your step-children any different than you would your own, or if you care for them any differently.
I am neither a step parent, nor do I have step parents but I worry about this. As a single mother, I worry that if I were to remarry, that my partner might never treat my daughter like his own. And mostly that if we had kids together, that they would be both of ours, and yet she would be just mine. I worry that it would be a disservice to her, and I am not sure how to reconcile that.
It's been somethingthat I have been thinking about recently, just because I realize how weird it would be for me to be a step-parent. I wouldn't treat the step-child with any less respect or care, but I think that I would think of them as a less important than my own, which scares me.
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