"He's been the best stepdad ever. He literally deserves to be called Dad."
"Being with somebody who, for instance, has a child and becoming a stepparent has connected me to a different kind of love and a different sort of adulthood."
"If she engages well with your kids, that's a green flag."
"I do things that a father is supposed to do. I never try and take the place of his biological father because I am not his biological father."
"Roxy could have died. You were such a great stepdad."
"So, just keep loving them the best way you can and they're going to see it. And they love Matt and they... Man, being a stepfather, Granger, is hard, man. It's hard but it is so rewarding."
"It's like you're the step-dad and you just joined a new family."
"Step parent, it's up to the child to decide how much they want to involve you as a parent."
"Ever since she came into my son's life, she's not the stepdaddy, she's the daddy that stepped up."
"I do love her, like she's my own."
"The kids aren't just stepchildren to me, they are my everything."
"If you're in a stepparent position, it's important to head in with humility and with open arms."
"I think it's so cool and admirable and I applaud you for taking on someone else's kids and loving them as your own I think it's such a beautiful gift that you can give to those girls and to your husband."
"He's not a stepdad, he's the dad that stepped up."
"It's hard for people who have children to find someone to commit to them and their children, right? The ones that aren't theirs. Like when a man commits to a woman who has kids that aren't theirs, that's what the argument is."
"He love them like they were his own and that may not mean much to many of you but to me as a mother that meant a whole lot."
"Let's talk about compromise. My son is not my biological son, but I raised him as such. God bless you for that. But I can't get that from her though."
"I hope at some point as a society we don't necessarily have to normalize step parenting but we need to speak about the reality of what does it mean to raise someone else's child to the best of your abilities."
"Malachi, you love your stepmom, definitely."
"I still love my stepmother, she's still a really great human being."
"He's the best stepfather in the world."
"There are tons of step parents that come into a family and are loved."
"Michelle isn't trying to replace anybody; she loved these children, she liked these children, but that's a far cry from wanting to replace their mother."
"I'm a stepmom and I love my kids so much."
"We all spent the day together; my stepdad seemed a lot happier."
"Wow, maybe Randy's not such a bad stepdad after all."
"Step parents have always just been given a bad rap ever since we were little, like Cinderella's evil stepmother, but in my experience, that's really not the case."
"Jean never tried to be our mother because she knew, always, that she wasn't and she never could be."
"Oh, how sweet is that, he's so close with his stepfather."
"Russell has been in the baby's life since he was two, that's his bonus son."
"I will respect any man that will look after my child as if it's his own."
"Children always want to feel belonging, like they want to feel like, 'Cool, I'm accepted. This is the person living with my mom, I want to call them dad.'"
"Being their stepfather brings me so much joy."
"It's good for society if men are being stepfathers."
"I love them, I have always tried to be a respectful and loving stepparent who doesn't talk bad about their mom."
"Stepdads matter too because they take a whole part in the kids' life."
"Shout out to the first woman who stepped up to be a stepmom. That's a W woman right there."
"I could not have picked a better dad for my kids, a better stepdad for my daughter."
"I'm ready to be the best stepmom that I can be."
"I'm a product of a stepfather. My stepfather stepped up to the plate."
"Shout outs to all the stepdads out in the world."
"Being a stepmom is really freaking hard."
"Being a stepdad isn't easy, but coming down and opening a 'world's best dad' card in brand new aftershave this morning, wow, what a feeling."
"It's okay to be married to a guy that has children, and you don't have to necessarily try and be the mom."
"For every guy that make the sacrifice to take care of somebody else's child... let me give you some credit."
"Jesus had a stepfather, and the Bible says he obeyed and honored his stepfather."
"Being a step parent doesn't mean that you're trying to replace anybody."