Mom and husband pressures 35-year-old stepmom to stop calling her 15-year-old stepdaughter her daughter, even though she calls her mom: 'My husband keeps correcting her whenever she calls me mom.'

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  _{Actors portraying a stepmother and stepdaughter, who see themselves as mother and daughter, and call each other such.} 

• The mom in this story is a 35-year-old, and is the only mother her daughter has in her life.

  “[Me and my husband have] been married 11 years, and even though [my daughter is] not biologically mine, I still call her my daughter, and she calls me mom. I recently posted to Facebook about her 15th birthday and called her the best daughter a mom could ask for.”

  Most single dads would dream of a wife who could develop such a close relationship with their daughter! Dynamics like this are relatively uncommon.

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  _{A cake representing the cake that the mom made for her daughter on her 15th birthday, despite the fact that she's technically her stepmother.} 

• Unfortunately, the girl's step-grandma, the mom's mother, had to stick her nose into her daughter's business and criticize her for calling her stepdaughter her daughter.

  “She wasn’t happy that I was claiming her as my daughter, since I didn’t give birth to her and as such, I apparently have no right to call her that.”

   

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  _{A woman pretending to be a step-grandma, upset that her daughter is saying on social media that her stepdaughter is her daughter.} 

• When the mom brought this up to her husband, he agreed with his mother-in-law, which is strange, because he has let his wife call herself his daughter's mother for years without incident. Now all of a sudden, he's against it because his mother-in-law is against it? 

  “The weirdest thing is when my husband found out, he actually said he somewhat agrees, even though he had no problem with it prior. Now. he wants me to stop calling her that, and keeps correcting her whenever she calls me mom.”

  Something fishy is going on here. 

• What should the mom do in this situation? Can she get her husband to change his mind?

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