That day will come… step-parents

I’m at home tonight, exhausted after a long day at work and an evening of cleaning and so I decide to hop on Facebook for a bit and relax. Some scrolling later, I find this video in my feed about step-parents.

After watching it, I can’t help but feel tears come to my eyes. I think about my beautiful little daughter who just turned 2 at the end of last month and how one day, she’ll most likely have her own set of step-parents.

After her mom and I split, for quite some time, I didn’t hide how much I hated her not-yet-present future husband. I hated the idea of another man being called dad and being more present in my daughter’s life than me. But a lot has changed since.

I see my daughter every single weekend now. It’s exhausting but to see her fully recognize who I am and constantly ask for me and know on Friday nights that she’ll be seeing me the next morning… it’s a feeling I can’t describe. I’ve come to accept the fact that life moves on and that step-parents are nearly inevitable when a couple divorces.

I hope that when the day comes for me to accept someone else in my daughter’s life, I’ll have the same strength as those parents and will be able to show them the love and respect they deserve. I hope I can show them that we’re not enemies but rather teammates with one goal in mind: that my child grows up to be a beautiful young lady who makes every single one of us proud.

Instead of hating someone who is not yet in my life, I pray that my ex finds someone who is deserving of the title of Dad. I pray that this person take care of my daughter as if she were his own flesh and blood. I also pray that he sees me as an ally instead of an enemy.

Here’s the video that touched me so deeply.