I had a very good relationship with my step dad. Minus a couple years of petty teenage drama where I threw fits over punishments, but I learned that as long as I wasn't a brat my dad was a great guy. I learned a whole lot from him.
He died about five and a half years ago. I was 19, and he had been paralyzed and chronically ill for a decade.
He had a great sense of humor, he made me laugh so much as a kid. As we got older he lost some of that, I guess it's less motivating when your kids are teenagers and you're depressed a lot from being stuck in bed all the time.
I talked with him a lot too. As I got older, we talked a lot about stuff, and he encouraged me to think for myself and have my own opinions. He didn't get mad when I began to disagree with him on a major issue my parents had tried to ingrain in me since early childhood.
I shared this song with him because I thought he'd like it, it makes me think of him:
This song I picked out after he died, because I felt like it's what he'd say if I could still hear from him:
He wouldn't care for the genre though, lol