>>>Too many women think they can define and re-define these things according to their latest romance.>>>
My stepfather and my father are two great, wonderful grandfathers to my children. My husband is my oldest two's 'Daddy' to them and him. Love can go beyond blood and I'm sure glad because their "real" father is a sonuvab*tch.
Sure is a whole lot of shakin' go on about this simple observation that some guy marrying Mom doesn't make him their kids' Dad or, subsequently, Grandpa to the children of those kids. I'm happy for all concerned when those relationships work as well as they sometimes do - and respect those relationships for the good that they provide - but it doesn't change the facts. And not all "real" fathers are sons of bitches.