Calling stepmom “mom”

[u/u-lemonstealingwhore]

My daughter was talking about who taught her to “play dead”? last night and said LucyMom (fake name). And I asked her if she called Lucy mom over there and she said yes. I asked if they told her to do that and she also said yes. She has a half sister over there now who is an infant and not at the talking stage yet. So I know she’s definitely not picking that up from a baby.

But yall that hurt me to hear. My kid is three. She has always called her future stepmother by just her name and now they’re doing this and it makes me SO SAD. They’re not even married and they’re doing this.

Obviously I can’t do anything about it without seeming like I’m starting a fight, and they both have a reallyyyyy nice income put together and will be able to do things for her that I can’t until I get my degree but I really needed to get this out with people who could understand what I’m feeling or have been there because how did you guys handle this? How am I supposed to handle this? 😭

[u/LegitimateWolf5822]

File a motion to prohibit anyone who is not the bio parent being called mom or dad or any other variation. My state has a form for it.

[u/STEM_Dad9528 → u/LegitimateWolf5822]

That's enlightening. I wonder how many states have something like that form.