Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

I was twelve when my parents got divorced. I liked the guy my mom ending marrying who is still my stepdad today and a great person, and my dad had an awesome girlfriend at one point and new wife at another who were both amazing. I also didn't have the mindset of thinking they were trying to replace my parents. I recognized my mom was extremely unhappy with my dad who was a control freak with depression issues and although he was miserable for a while, they shouldnt have been together.

No comment about your unsubstantiated opinion about the likelihood of great step parents.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I got the evil stepmother experience. Today though I still do her the courtesy of a phone call every few months whereas I haven't talked to my dad for more than a decade. He cheated on my mom, dumped her, and married my stepmom within weeks of knowing her. He would force us to call her mom while at the same time she would say "don't call me mom, it freaks me out," and being told to only refer to our birth mom as "the egg donor." Just some really good parenting decisions being made.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.