Your kids shouldn’t be calling someone Daddy after a year?

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Acquaintance from the past. Three kids, primary school age, two different fathers. Must have broken up with her youngest’s dad 2 years ago. All fine so far. New guy starts cropping up on SM posts 6 months ago. He has kids of a similar age to hers.

The last month or so, she keeps referring to him as her kids ‘daddy’. ‘The best daddy my kids could ask for’, ‘Our gang are so lucky to have such a great daddy’, that kind of thing. So obviously I assumed they had been together longer than I realised… but she’s just posted a ONE YEAR celebration photo!

Is this not massively inappropriate/confusing for the children? I seem to remember the last one being a ‘wonderful dad’ until he wasn’t.

It’s literally none of my business, just wondered what others thought.

Yup. You see women like that posting on here all the time. Poor kids.

'He loves them as if they're his own'. No he doesn't and if you break up, he will never see them again

YANBU, it's gross (I am a single parent myself) but what can you do

A parent of a child in school DD's class does this. I think she just really needs to believe that the relationships are in her sons' best interests.
I don't know anything about the men, they may be lovely, but I've only known her since DD started school last September, and since then there have been two different relationships with "an amazing daddy to my boys".

My aunt’s husband walked out when kids were 2 and 4 and his mistress was 9 months pregnant. Lovely.
Two years later, my aunt’s friend introduced her to a work colleague - a lovely bloke she knew for over 10 years. He was a bit of a silent type but showed up the next day with bags full of food (my aunt was struggling financially after the divorce) and pretty much stayed. They just celebrated 25 years together.
My friend had a series of abusive marriages and found her husband nr 3 in bed with another woman at their home. Her son was 2. A year later her friend was due to come for a meal and asked if she could bring her brother who just came back from abroad working as a rescue diver. He moved in 6 months later and they had two more kids together. They have now been married for 15 years.
I know this may not be the norm, but these stories also happen. And maybe your friend’s man really is the best daddy the kids have ever had. Depends on what you compare it to, doesn’t it? In both my stories the original “daddy” was a bag of shit. And, sadly, you can’t really tell whether a 10 year relationship will be any better than a 6 months one in the long run.