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This Really Sets My Blood Boiling Beyond Belief
Posted October 12th, 2011 at 4:15PM
Just to get this off my chest because it really ****** me off so badly when people do make this mistake. I just find it incredible how some people cannot tell the f****** difference between half-sister and step-sister. Why it angers me so much doesn't really have much to do with just the error itself. It angers me when people call my sisters my stepsisters rather than my half-sisters, or just my sisters. I'll explain why.
First of all, stepsister and half-sister...
Huge difference. HUGE.
A stepsister is your stepparent's biological daughter from a previous marriage. She's not related to you at all and genetically, she's not really your sister. If your biological parent and your stepparent get a divorce, your stepparent will no longer be your, well, stepparent. And your stepsister will no longer be your stepsister either. You'll just be friends or enemies or acquaintances depending on how you got along but you won't be step siblings anymore.
A half sister is related to you by one parent whether she be the product from your biological mom or your biological dad's previous marriage (like my case) or the product of your biological mother or biological father and a stepparent. Either way, the half sister is half related to you. She's still half your blood. Half your sister. And regardless of what happens, she will always be just that. Still technically your sister. Nothing can change that.
That being said, why so many people can't get it right when there is a huge difference between the two is beyond me. It vexes me.
I grew up as in an only child my nearly my whole life. I had two half-sisters, but since I didn't really know them and didn't grow up with them and wasn't in touch with them and knew nothing of them up until a few months ago, I never felt like I had sisters. I knew I did, but it wasn't like I had them. In my mind, I was an only child. Because in every way possible aside from having two long-lost sisters, I was one. I've always wanted sisters so bad. I knew they were out there somewhere and I just wanted to find them and now I did... And we get along great, all of us. I'm happy to finally have sisters... Just so people can mess up and constantly refer to them as my "stepsisters" rather than just my sisters, or half-sisters?! Why the heck can't people let me have SISTERS already, rather than stepsisters?
Imagine that you have a mother that you never met or don't remember. You live with your dad and have had stepmothers, but it's still not the same. You want to find your REAL mother. And then you find your real mother and you get along great, but your friends keep referring to her as your stepmother rather than your real mother even when they know the whole situation well... Wouldn't that really bother you after a while? Like, stop calling her my stepmother, dammit! She's more than my stepmother, she's my REAL mother!
Having people constantly refer to her as someone who isn't really related to you when she is tends to become a bit offensive at times...
At least that's the case with my sisters when people keep messing up.
It just makes me want to scream at people that they are not my stepsisters, they're my SISTERS dammit and if they can't accept them as being my sisters, stop referring to them as my stepsisters and get it right, then I don't want them bringing them up at all.
First of all, stepsister and half-sister...
Huge difference. HUGE.
A stepsister is your stepparent's biological daughter from a previous marriage. She's not related to you at all and genetically, she's not really your sister. If your biological parent and your stepparent get a divorce, your stepparent will no longer be your, well, stepparent. And your stepsister will no longer be your stepsister either. You'll just be friends or enemies or acquaintances depending on how you got along but you won't be step siblings anymore.
A half sister is related to you by one parent whether she be the product from your biological mom or your biological dad's previous marriage (like my case) or the product of your biological mother or biological father and a stepparent. Either way, the half sister is half related to you. She's still half your blood. Half your sister. And regardless of what happens, she will always be just that. Still technically your sister. Nothing can change that.
That being said, why so many people can't get it right when there is a huge difference between the two is beyond me. It vexes me.
I grew up as in an only child my nearly my whole life. I had two half-sisters, but since I didn't really know them and didn't grow up with them and wasn't in touch with them and knew nothing of them up until a few months ago, I never felt like I had sisters. I knew I did, but it wasn't like I had them. In my mind, I was an only child. Because in every way possible aside from having two long-lost sisters, I was one. I've always wanted sisters so bad. I knew they were out there somewhere and I just wanted to find them and now I did... And we get along great, all of us. I'm happy to finally have sisters... Just so people can mess up and constantly refer to them as my "stepsisters" rather than just my sisters, or half-sisters?! Why the heck can't people let me have SISTERS already, rather than stepsisters?
Imagine that you have a mother that you never met or don't remember. You live with your dad and have had stepmothers, but it's still not the same. You want to find your REAL mother. And then you find your real mother and you get along great, but your friends keep referring to her as your stepmother rather than your real mother even when they know the whole situation well... Wouldn't that really bother you after a while? Like, stop calling her my stepmother, dammit! She's more than my stepmother, she's my REAL mother!
Having people constantly refer to her as someone who isn't really related to you when she is tends to become a bit offensive at times...
At least that's the case with my sisters when people keep messing up.
It just makes me want to scream at people that they are not my stepsisters, they're my SISTERS dammit and if they can't accept them as being my sisters, stop referring to them as my stepsisters and get it right, then I don't want them bringing them up at all.
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