My fiance's step mother is the sweetest woman in the world. She would never say a bad thing about anyone and if someone tries to get her to talk, she's a vault! I love her strength and compassion for everyone. So this surprised me last weekend when I was casually looking through their photo albums. I saw tons of photos of my fiance, step daughter, and step son, and some were very odd-shaped as if they'd been cut. It took me a minute to realize the sweet little lady spent the time to cut out every picture that BM had been in! There's not even a hand or an arm of hers in there! I just smiled at her in amazement. I just realized reading through some other people's posts on here (regarding the husband's parents putting up pictures around their house with BM in them still) that some people might never even think to look in old photo albums if they can't even get their picture frames updated! She actually took the time to do that, most likely knowing that some day I would be looking through those photo albums and might feel some sort of negative feeling about having old pictures of BM in them.

I am so thankful that DF's family has been so quietly supportive of me, my relationship with DF and his children, and that they seem to truly understand our side of the issues with BM! I hope many of you are in the same boat!