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Does anyone else find this odd?

jlot's picture

:? Does anyone else find this….weird?

My SD3’s BM is telling my SD3 that her mom's two friends are her other two step moms. So, there is me (her real Step Mom) and then these two friends that BM just met a few months ago….who now are also being encouraged to be called step mom…..I would like to see these two other Step Moms clean up her puke when she is sick or change her wet clothes when SD3 has an accident.

First – how confusing to a child...and frankly rude to me, but whatever.

Second – why would anyone want to label themselves as a step mom if they didn’t have to?

So freaking weird.

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CrystalRE's picture

I think it is very odd and I cant figure out why anyone would want to confuse their child like that. It really makes you wonder where our spouses came up with these lunatics!

jlot's picture

No she isn't a lesbian, if she were, I would be okay with that label for these ladies. She is involved in a sport and these are her closest friends on this team.

LindaL's picture

ok I thought she might be a lesbian too but then i read this message...you are right this is sooo weird, I mean all my close friends say they are my son's aunts (because they are like sisters to me) but to be called step moms?? hhmmm??? no no no....

Timetogiveup's picture

I don't know why anyone would want to be called SM when they didn't have the horror.....I'm meant honor....excuse the typo. Trust me, I would a better person without the title.

I have never heard of that. Growing up I my mom's friend was my "aunt" and I am "aunt" to my friends two daughters. I would prefer if they just called me by my first name, but my friend is one of the rare people that is teaching her kids old-fashion manners.

Bm is playing games with you and worse yet HER child.

jlot's picture

Timetogiveup, that was a pretty hilarious "typo". But yeah, I think you all are right, she is trying to make my role nonexistant or common, which whatever. I don't know if I should correct my SD or just let her figure it out as she grows.

Rags's picture

She is obfuscating reality for her kid and attempting to dilute your importance.

IMHO of course.

You can always introduce random strangers to your Skids as their "real mom". But, as fun as that might be it would just screw the kid up even worse.

She may not be a lesbian but since she is introducing multiple friends of hers as the child's "step mothers" you can always file a modification of the Custody/Visitation/Support order requiring BM to keep her lesbian affairs to a single partner rather than the multiple partners she is introducing her kid to. This would be a reasonable response given her behavior IMHO.

BM is obviously a whack job and this is one interpretation of her behavior that I am sure even the usual Family Law idiot judges would react to.

What is it with some people? They seem to go out of their way to screw up their children and somehow think that there is nothing wrong with their actions.

Good luck and best regards,

caregiver1127's picture

Quite frankly what BM is doing is showing you that ANYONE can be her child's Stepmother - first I would go to DH and ask if he is married to more than just you and when he asks why ell him that his ex is telling SD3 to call her friends SM as well and you need to know if he is committing bigamy (which is illegal). When he says no then you should tell him that Ex needs to stop this crap or he will be calling the authorities to report her because this is quite frankly in my eyes child abuse. You cannot play with a 3 year old's mind and think it is okay to screw them up. People may think I am going overboard but this is just wrong and your DH needs to put her in her place. Period.