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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 441521" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Hello and welcome. Glad you found your way to a place that seems supportive to you. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>You will get a whole variety of views on the stepmother role thing. My own take on it is that your wisest course IS in fact to step down from the (unwilling on your part, anyway, I realise) position of honorary mother. You are not his mother and he is too old, with too chequered a history, to ever accept you as that. You can be his wise big sister, aunt, friend, mentor, helpmeet, I don't know... don't give him an opportunity to resent and hate you by trying to step into some replacement parental role (he WILL only resent it) but just see what you can do as your husband's consort, as it were... </p><p>I guess we are all learning about difficult children. I certainly am <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> It is definitely an acquired taste...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 441521, member: 11227"] Hello and welcome. Glad you found your way to a place that seems supportive to you. :) You will get a whole variety of views on the stepmother role thing. My own take on it is that your wisest course IS in fact to step down from the (unwilling on your part, anyway, I realise) position of honorary mother. You are not his mother and he is too old, with too chequered a history, to ever accept you as that. You can be his wise big sister, aunt, friend, mentor, helpmeet, I don't know... don't give him an opportunity to resent and hate you by trying to step into some replacement parental role (he WILL only resent it) but just see what you can do as your husband's consort, as it were... I guess we are all learning about difficult children. I certainly am :) It is definitely an acquired taste... [/QUOTE]
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