Patrick200778: how about a relationship where the ex wife for example has a new boyfriend that tries to assume a father role to your son (your as of me in a father sense), even when you (father) are trying to protect the child into understanding that he only has one father and one mother
Welcome Patrick and lovely to meet you.
Difficult isn't it?
My children have their stepmother, who many years ago assumed the mother role.
I embraced it rather than fought it, my children know who their mother is and I found that the more I embraced it, the more she backed off. I killed her with kindness, so that she has no excuse to say anything ill of me on front of the children.
She has since gone on to be a mother herself, so she knows that feeling now, of being a parent.
We ahve since become good friends, which is so much nicer for all children involved, it takes the level of burden from their shoulders.
My advice would be that, embrace it, but your child will know who his father is and that will never change, you are the one thing that he can never be and that is your child's father and parent.