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Ozy gets to call Mrs. Mudd-Llewellyn "Mom" now?

yes. and Millie gets to have two daddies.

I wouldn't call my stepmom "mom" if my birth mother had died while giving birth to me.

Just because you might have a new parent (step or in-law), doesn't decrease the parenthood of the originals. Whether you call the new parent Mom or Dad or address them by their first name or anything else depends on your relationship with them (comfort, animosity, apathy, whatever), and that also doesn't reduce the original parent.

that's not how my dad explained it

I wouldn't call my stepmom "mom" if my birth mother had died while giving birth to me.

That's not what happened to Ozy's birth mother.

I didn't say it was.

*Awkward pause*

Just because you might have a new parent (step or in-law), doesn't decrease the parenthood of the originals. Whether you call the new parent Mom or Dad or address them by their first name or anything else depends on your relationship with them (comfort, animosity, apathy, whatever), and that also doesn't reduce the original parent.

I agree. Just because the person isn't your biological parent doesn't make them less of a parent.

that's not how my mom explained it

Everybody's mom explains things a little diffrently.

not everyone's mom gets divorced for another woman though

How awfully thoughtful of you, all of you, to go bringing your personal childhood traumas and neuroses into what was meant to be nothing more that a simple question posed for the sake of inspiring sentiment without my even having to ask.

R.K. Milholland was right.

R K Niner?

Since when are we neurotic and... um... traumatic? This is just us being goofy as usual.

You really need to spend more time on this forum.