ROFL @ T-Block and U13
SavnBass made me remember something else. I'm actually a stepkid now, and I actually forgot. LOL. I guess because I was already grown when my mom married her husband, so the whole family dynamic was a non-issue... or at least much less of an issue. Now he has daughters, and we don't use the "step" prefix (never even considered it). HOWEVER, I get very... sensitive.... when people refer to him as my father or when he refers to me as his daughter. That's probably because my father is deceased and it's been affecting me in the past couple of years more than before. My sisters refer to them as their "parents" and to him as their father. My nieces and nephews refer to him as their grandfather. I just ain't having all that. I don't even like to hear my sisters do it, but hey, they're grown and if they're cool with it, God bless 'em.
I love him like a father, and I love how much he loves my mother... but he's still my STEPfather. :-) Although they both treat us all the same, I wouldn't mind if he treated his own kids different. To me, it would make sense.
But of course, there's a difference when the kids are adults.
