I don’t know what it’s like being a step mom, but I know what it feels like to be raised by a great one. My stepmom loved me in ways that transformed my life. And now that I’m a mother, I appreciate the way she led our blended family with kindness and love. For her simple gestures, confidence and reassurance, and even the limits she placed during my wild teenage years, I am grateful to her. These step mom quotes are for her.
Many of these quotes for stepmom apply to foster mom quotes or adoptive mom quotes also because, in reality, the union of the family is made in non-traditional and life-affirming ways. These stepmom quotes remind us that love is a choice! Take what feels right to you and refuse the words that don’t. Just know that we see you and thank you for loving the kids that were formed outside your body just as hard as those that might have.
Stepmom Quotes
Step Mom Quotes
“Marriage brought us together. Being a family is just what’s in our hearts.”
“We aren’t ‘step,’ we’re just family.”
“You never treated me as a spare child, but as an extra blessing.”
“You did not give me the gift of life. Life gave me the gift of you.”
“Parenthood requires love, not DNA.”
“Stepmoms are special because their love is a choice.”
“A stepparent is an amazing person. They made a choice to love another’s child as their own.”
“A step parent doesn’t just marry a spouse; they marry an entire situation. They find a balance between supporting and defending without overstepping visible and invisible boundaries.”
On Being a Stepmom…
“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.” – Morris Gleitzman
“Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store…all of the responsibility and none of the authority.”- Valerie J Lewis Coleman
“Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a childs life experience.” – Azriel Johnson
“Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.” – Murasaki Shikibu
“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.” – Leigh Anne Tuohy
“It takes a strong man to accept somebody else’s children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.” – Ray Johnson
“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.” – Jessica James
Mother’s Day Quotes for Stepmom
“Sometimes in life, we take “steps” to have better lives. You are a step that I am grateful to experience as I learn to love you more and more and more! Happy Mother’s Day!”
“Happy mother’s day to a woman who has always tried to fill the empty space in my heart, not my mother’s shoes.”
“I will never understand the difference between a stepmother and a biological mother because you’ve never shown me the difference between the two.”
A Word On Stepmom Support
The experience of being a stepmom is unique to every family. I know because I lived through a few stepmoms and they aren’t all the same! Stepmoms are often the strongest moms out there and deserve to recognize for the legacy you raise. I found this online magazine with links to stepmom support forums for those of you interested. Let me know if anything good comes from it!
