33 Quotes About Being a Stepmom

Being a step parent is a difficult job as you work hard to make your blended family function harmoniously. These quotes about being a stepmom serve as the perfect inspiration you need to be successful.

“A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.”

“A step parent is a truly amazing person. They made a choice to love another’s child as their own.”

“A step parent is so much more than just a parent; they made the choice to love when they didn’t have to.”

“A stepparent doesn’t just marry a spouse: they marry their spouse’s entire situation. They have to find a balance between supporting and defending without overstepping visible and invisible boundaries.”

“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a step dad.”

“Being a step parent is a rough job. But going to bed every night knowing that you are loved by kids who aren’t biologically yours is a great feeling.”

“Being a stepmom means they grew inside of my heart instead of my tummy.”

“Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.”

“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”

“Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn’t think I could understand poetry; I didn’t think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.”

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”

“For better or worse, step-parenting is self-conscious parenting. You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

“I am a stepmother to the fullest extent.”

“I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I’m very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.”

“I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode – with me as the evil stepmother!”

“If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it’s very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.”

“I’m brilliant at cooking my stepmother’s scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.”

“Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.”

“It takes a strong man to accept somebody else’s children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.”

“My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.”

“My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.”

“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”

“Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another’s.”

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

“Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a childs life experience.”

“Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.”

“Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store… all of the responsibility and none of the authority.”

“Stepparents can be awesome. Because their love is a choice.”

“The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.”

“To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!”

“We aren’t”step”, we aren’t”half”, we’re just family.”

“When I was growing up, my stepmother’s sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.”

“When it feels as if you can’t do right by the other parent, do right by your step-child instead. You’ll never fail with best interest at heart.”

There are many benefits to being a step parent. This new rewarding lifestyle will bring you many moments of joy and moments of difficulty.

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