Will you call your step mother with 'Mom'?

@ifa225 (14461)
Indonesia
March 2, 2011 3:54am CST
my father had remarried again. thus i have a step mother. i can't call her'Mom' as she wish too. cause in my heart there is only one Mom and that is my mother and none can replace it. can you?
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
17 Mar 11
Hi. ifa225. No. I could never call my step mom mother at all. My step mom does not act like a mother anyway to me. You are not wrong for this at all. I have one mother, she is deceased, and I could not call any other woman mother at all. Even if they see me as their daughter, I could not call them mom. To me, I have only one mother. She may not be physically here with me, but her spirit is always here with me regardless.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
17 Mar 11
I feel that if a woman did not give birth to me, then they are not considered to be my real mother. It took so much for my mom to carry me for nine months and that to give birth to me. I take this as a great value!
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 11
the pregnancy is not easy to face. I too appreciate my mother because of this. No one can replace her pain and her sacrifice. i hope my step mother could understand this
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
17 Mar 11
Hi cream, i also feel the same way. i feel her even she is not visible in this world. i believe that she always here with me no matter what i do. and that is the big honor that i can give to my mom by not calling another women with Mom
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@nangisha (3496)
• Indonesia
11 Mar 11
Hi Ifa225!. The answer will be NEVER I think no one will able to replace my mom. If I reads your story I can consider myself lucky because I got my mom still with me. I already talk about this matters with my dad if my parent pass away sooner than the others. We don't allow them to married again. They must stay with one of us and we will taking of them the way they taking care us. I think we need to made it clear to our future spouse, if there is chance if one of my parent will stay with us. No way they will stay with us if they had one another. What wrong with your mom, is she sick.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 11
probably, i have to think in his way. i know that it is not easy to live alone. thanks for sharing,
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
11 Mar 11
Hi Nangisha, you are far far lucky than me, my mother had gone for 9 years ago. my father had remarried again for four times or more maybe.. even though he knows that doing that is not a good choice, i don't know why he still do it
@nangisha (3496)
• Indonesia
12 Mar 11
Its a long time but I think we all will never forget our mom because they had really special place in our heart thats no one can replace it. Maybe your dad can not forget your mom either. Maybe its his way to looking what he had with your mom but not found it in every woman he married. I hear from many of my relative if woman after loose his spouse they can handle to life alone, but not with man because they used to serve by their wife so they have higher dependability with their spouse. Have a nice day!.
@shia88 (4571)
• Malaysia
7 Mar 11
Hi, I can understand your feeling,calling another woman as your mother is difficult. Be it she is a good woman,but down in your heart, your mother is still the best and she is the only mother for you. Since you feel comfortable to call her "MOM,why don't you just call her "Auntie". Let your father know about your feeling,I believe he won't force you to call her new life partner as Mom. Of course, I do hope both of you may have a good relationship and she will treat you well.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
9 Mar 11
Hi Shia, well she treat me not good. i can see the hatred from her eyes. she just pretend good when my father is around. but i hope that i am wrong. need times to know her true color
@mtrguanlao (5522)
• Philippines
2 Mar 11
Hi ifa! I understand how you feel. You must have love your mom that much! I guess,I can't seem to call my stepmom "mom" if I were in your shoes. If your stepmom loves you,I know she will understand that. Pushing you to call her mom is not a right move. She should just patiently wait for you to call her mom eventually. She should make up bondings with you first to earn it. I know in the future,when both of you have already build up close relationships,I guess it's the time when you feel like calling her mom already.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 11
Hi Mtrguanlo, You are so much understanding. i do agree with what you had stated above. what makes me not calling her Mom is we are just too early. need years to make a bond in our relationship. but i believe that day would come
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
7 Mar 11
i should give her a chance. i know that it is not fair to judge her by the first time we know each other. we have not seen our weak and strength. and i will do that for my dad, thanks a lot. see you around
• Philippines
4 Mar 11
Hi ifa! You really can't do anything about it but to accept your stepmom but I know it's not that easy,we can't just build a close relationship at once in just weeks,it takes time. But do have in mind that your stepmom is there because your dad loves her and if you love your dad,you should try to consider accepting her and eventually include her in your family. Maybe she isn't bad at all,she may not be as good as your mom,but your dad needs her,at least you can do this for your dad. Hope you understand my point of view,sometimes we have to sacrifice for our love ones and that is your dad. See yah!
• Philippines
8 Mar 11
I can never replace my Mom for any other Mom. I too have something about stepmoms. I never wish to have one. No other person can equal with all the sacrifices that my Mom has gone through from conception to birth and until I grew up. I feel that a stepmom can never equal that kind of unconditional love.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
9 Mar 11
Hi, i agree with you. i have a very beloved mother and it is not so easy to replace her. i respect my step mother but still i can't treat her just like i did with my mom. she can't never have my love probably.
• Philippines
23 Mar 11
You are right we have only one mother and nothing else... i understand why you cant call her mom but if you think your step mom is good with you still respect him for the sake of your father.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 11
Hi rhizziel, nice name ... i want to respect her from the bottom of my heart, not because my father. if i do that i only push my self to do that. i hope she can approve it by doing and act good so i don't mind to call her mother someday
@jazel_juan (15746)
• Philippines
2 Mar 11
hmmm if i am in that place, no i would not call her mom. she has to earn it unless she wants me to call her that because there will always be one MOM for me and that is my biological mom.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 11
i agree with you Jazel, she has to proof me something that she deserve to call as a mom. she must be sacrifice for me, thus there is something in my heart that lead me to call her Mom
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
2 Mar 11
I do not have a stepmother, so I can not feel, how to call the stepmother as the mother. But, I have a stepmother-in-law, before my husband, it is difficult to accept the presence stepmother, and my husband did not want to call the mother. I told my husband, stepmother call with another title, but still have meaning mother. My husband called his mother with Mamak, and stepmother now, he is called as Ibu.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 11
i can feel what your husband's feel Indah. and i know it is not easy to be a step mother too. but i think that is the consequence to be a step mother. i hope my daughter will always be a first wife so she does not have to face this difficult situation
• Philippines
3 Mar 11
Hi. I know that it would be very awkward to call your stepmother "Mom" especially when you're a grown up buddy when your father has had remarried. I guess, it would be awkward to call her as such but when frequently practiced you will be used to it by then. I also had one and she was the one who refuses to called as such so why give the effort when in fact it's obviously awkward to address "Mom" to your non-biological mother.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
4 Mar 11
Hi Blosie, i guess we had experience the same way. i just hope that she can understand me that this is not easy for me to call her Mom. and i hope she respect me if i just call her aunt or something like that.