Katharina Buczek
“I told her, ‘I’m sorry, but I’m not your mother. You can’t call me that, sweetie,” she recalled.
Sadly, though, that kind of broke her stepdaughter’s heart. First, the seven-year-old looked shocked, and then her stepdaughter actually started to tear up. So, if you could not have guessed, she and her husband ended up getting into a massive argument over the “mom” title later that night.
He thinks that what she said to her stepdaughter was absolutely awful. Plus, he even told her that since her stepdaughter feels comfortable and close enough to call her mom, she should just feel special for earning that important title. However, she claims that her husband just does not understand her perspective on the situation. And it has to do with her stepdaughter’s biological mom.
“Her mother is still very much alive,” she said, “and I don’t want to disrespect her by taking her title as ‘mom.'”
At the same time, though, she also admitted to the entire situation feeling just very awkward. After all, she was so used to being called by her own name, and the use of “mom” at the dinner table totally caught her off guard. So now, amidst her husband’s and stepdaughter’s upset, she has been left wondering whether not wanting to be called “mom” makes her a real jerk or not.
Can you imagine how her stepdaughter must have felt at that moment, especially since her stepdaughter’s biological mom is always absent? At the same time, can you understand why the title “mom” might make her uncomfortable? Do you think she and her stepdaughter can find a way to fix this misunderstanding together? How would you approach this situation?
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