Step-mothers instinctively have the softest "maternal" touch, and they always know just the right thing to say and do to make you feel better. But these blended step-mothers aren't about cooking their step-son's chicken soup and taking their temperature.

As far back as you can remember, you have always been close with your step-cousin. Many nights over at your step-aunt's house, where you and she would stay up all night innocently play wrestling under the fort you built from her bed sheets.