Do you get stepparent imposter syndrome?

[Riseandshine7]

My friends, family, and my husband sometimes say how great I am as a stepmom and I feel imposter syndrome regarding this like it’s a bit over the top.

My stepchildren are lovely lovely kids. I am of course kind to my stepchildren, I am there for them, am a friend to them, I make sure they have clean clothes etc., look out for them and I will stand up for them if I feel Dad is being unreasonable. I feel I am more of an ‘auntie’ figure than a mum figure - in my opinion their parents deserve the credit - they do all the grunt work - the worrying, the (main) financing, the discipline etc. I feel what I do is just what any stepparent should do. I took on a man with kids so a decent person would pitch in and be nice…

It’s lovely people say that to me especially my husband but I don’t think I do anything amazing or making me some sort of angel that needs ‘praising’. The bio parents IMO deserve the praise for giving me such easy step kids!

Does anyone else get this?

I know it’s not a bad problem to have step family wise 😂

Took on a man with kids is bad phrasing - fell in love with a man with kids rather!

Take the praise, SM often don’t get enough of it

Not really, I think bio parents should be grateful to their partners for their help with their kids!

It more often than not is a thankless task being a step parent so l would be secretly smug if l were you!

I’d take that. It’s super hard to be a step parent and not puss people off even if you are doing everything you can. I suspect they think you are managing a difficult balancing act well.

just read some of the nightmare situations on here.