Good morning to all you wonderful step-parents! I am here in the hopes that this could work as not only a venting session as well as a counseling session! (LOL) It's been almost six years that I have been in my step-daughter's life. At an early age her mother abandoned her for drugs. I've been raising her with my fiance's mother, but on my own for nearly three years now. She has a lot of love from everyone in her family but no one can take the place of her mother, not even me. I honestly don't want the responsibility of it all anymore.