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Is it wrong of me to want my son to call my fiance Daddy?
My fiance and I have been together well over a year. I recently went through an international divorce. My son has only seen his biological father for 6 weeks (during a visit) since he was 12 months old. My son is now 2 1/2 years old and the person who has been raising him with me since 17 months old is my fiance. We are also expecting our first child together shortly. My son will see his biological father every summer starting at the age of 4 1/2, but his father lives in another country on a different continent, so the father figure in his life will obviously be my fiance. We don't want my son to feel left out when the new baby calls him Daddy, so we are encouraging him to call my fiance Daddy. However, I'm getting a lot of mixed reviews. My mother has this vendetta against my son calling my fiance Daddy. She says it will confuse him when he sees his foreign father and he will lash out, etc. But I feel as long as we explain things to him and always be honest with him, it's a good decision. Every time we make progress with my son calling him Daddy, my mother twists it back to just "Josh" because she cant' stand the idea of a step-dad being called Dad. Am I wrong to want the one man who will be a constant in my son's life to call my fiance Daddy? He doesn't even know his biological father!
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Blended families
> 60 days ago
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