Am we have a 'bloody fantastic Step parent thread please ?

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I am so downhearted by so many threads on here about useless partners moving in with with a Pwc ?parent with care) .. and I understand why.. you don't come to a forum for help if everything is good.. but I just want to put it out there... there are some exceptionally fab step parents around and would like to hear from you !

I'm a step mother and would not like to say if I'm fab or not.. that's in the eye of the step child .. but I iI am also a step daughter.. and would like to say how amazing he has been.. he came into our lives 7 years after my father died . A really really loved father.. completely the opposite personality, and as a teenager I was not easy 🙄... but he has stepped up to the mark and been a fantastic husband to my mother and a great person. They are both now in their late 80s and Mum has developed memory loss/early dementia.. and he is just .. Wow.. I have 2 siblings and 2 step siblings.. we are all closer now than we have ever been and try and support them both.
Anyone else or am I particularly blessed ?

My kid's step mum is great!! she's positive influence in all of our lives!

DH has become a fab stepdad to (now) grownup DD; I think of all of us he's proudest of her, and is so open in his admiration and support. It's lovely.

My husband-to-be has been in my daughters life for five years and is unbelievably wonderful with her and brings her so much that nobody else brings. He is absolutely there for her like a dad.

My Ex H also has a long term partner and she is a very good, caring and wise step mum to my daughter when DD is with them, which is 50% of the time. This has continued since she gave DD a little sister.

I feel my daughter is absolutely better off with four loving, attentive parental adults around her, all of whom bring different things. Every subject at school is fairly well covered by one of us! And that's the same for different emotional needs. And she utterly adores the little sis who would never have arrived otherwise.

I feel hugely blessed and grateful that my DD has such great step parents. Mostly for my DD but also for me

Isn't this really lovely ?
So many dMs saying how amazing the SM are ... if nothing else this has made me truly happy tonight along with so many many positive step-parent relationships...

I posted a positive step parenting thread last week. Unfortunately some posters were rather rude about it. But lots of lovely posters too.
But you can read if you want a positive story 😊.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/stepparenting/4684082-positive-blended-family-story?page=2&reply=121838682

My step dad is amazing. I don’t think of him as a step dad but just think if him as my dad.

I’ve also been a step mum for nearly 30 years. I have a great relationship with my step daughter and we get on really well.

😂

I think some people speak without engaging the brain! But you just have to laugh.

It is so lovely. I think there’s obviously a lean towards hearing about rubbish stepparents, from all perspectives - stepmums who are fed up, mums who are fed up, grown up step kids feeling annoyed. But I guess it’s like how you never see a thread of ‘my DH is a helpful and normal human who does his fair share of everything’ because it’s like okay and so? People post more when there’s a problem.

I have a wonderful step-father too. He was/is (I’m nearly 60 now) a much better parent to me/grandparent to my children than my mother was/is.

I love my stepdd dearly and I'm certain she loves me too. She lived with us for a few years before going to uni and then again after for several months. I miss her now, I love it when she visits, I get to spoil her.

Simple and to the point . Lovely

Beautiful xxx

Exactly my
Experience. Proof that's it's not all bad xx

What a beautiful post xxx

Thank you !! I had misse this xx

My mum died suddenly when I was 19, and my dad married her best friend about 18 months later. It was a very challenging time. They had lived down the street from us, and our families spent a lot of time together. I grew up with her DDs. I found the whole thing so difficult. But my stepmum was patient and understanding. She treats my children like her own grandchildren, and she tells them about my mum with so much love. We live quite far from my dad and stepmum, and I’m very grateful that he has her to look after him. Of course, I wish I still had my mum, but if I can’t have her, I’m glad to have my stepmum.

My late SF was the best human being I ever knew. Good through and through. My mum was lovely but he was even kinder and lovelier than her. He also left my siblings and I very comfortably off. One of life's gentlemen. Miss him and my mum so much