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When your co-parent wants your child to call stepparent mom or dad

My ex wants our daughter to call his new wife mom and I feel like I am watching someone else take my place in my own child's life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sharing fundamental parental identifiers feels like surrendering irreplaceable parts of yourself to people who entered the story later.

Worth thinking about

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