Stevie I started dating a really cooling girl I met one night out with some friends. It turns out she has a daughter. I am sure I man enough to take on the job of someone else. I just over thinking this and should leave the child being raised up to her Mother and Father? Besides how hard could it be I’m not her real Father. Or Just I just let her down easily and work away?
Stepparent to be Maybe
Philadelphia Pa
Hey Stepparent to be ..
Step Parenting? Or Simply Parenting
Being a father of two boys, ages 10 and 9. I often wondered how well I would fare in the singles market.
In 2005 after a few failed dating attempts with single non child baring woman I met a recently divorced a Mom named Erin.
Erin a wonderful new addition to the Single Parenthood was both terrified and excited to find and maintain a loving family environment for her and her , now 7 year old son.
The very night her and I met I wasn’t exactly sure is she was looking for the same tings I was hoping for early on. To find a partner who was able to except dating someone else with kids. Hoping to make the best of our situations I knew single Moms are a very delicate and precious creatures that need to be treated a such.
Having really enjoyed spending time with her I decided I needed to end my dating rein and devote entirely to our relationship, not only for her and I but for the three boys whose lives were about to change.
Two and one-half years later we own a home together and now live in a small town in Oklahoma. What’s so surprising to to us is the devotion we give to each other and responsibilities we share towards each others kids. What I write goes for the both of us.
When her son is sick and unable to go to school I, the working adult in the house while Erin attends graduate school am forced to call out from work to take care of his needs.
Being her sons step dad, a title I was recently permitted to use and widely excepted by everyone in the house, take his temp, give him his needed medication, make his meals, wash his clothes, drive him to sports practices and even coach several of his teams. I listen to his problems at school and even comfort him when he cries that he misses his real dad. I do the same for her son that I do for my two . Neither one is treated any differently. We all drive to the others games or plays or practices together, we share in each others dreams and pains.
Step parenting ? Is a term that needs to be forgotten, whether raising your own child, living with, or simply dating someone who has a child you need to remember that every responsibility that comes with raising your own comes with dating someone else who has a child.
Stevie J Stevenson Jr/ Columnist Ask A Guy Named Stevie
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