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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 368508" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hehe...a lot got better when the kids started seeing their father for who he is. </p><p></p><p>But it took a long time because, as my grown daughter has told me, "I didn't want to think about another man touching you. It made me angrier than I can even explain."</p><p></p><p>Although people don't want to admit it (as I didn't want to admit it) our kids, even teens and sometimes adult kids, hate seeing their parents with other "honeys." And, sure, we deserve to be happy too, but kids don't understand and accept that we love somebody other than Dad and often this leads to deepseated resentment that sometimes goes away and sometimes doesn't. My youngest daughter has a lot of friends who have to bounce from house to house because of divorces and none of them like it nor do they particularly care for at least one of their parent's SO's. It's not really about you. It's about her mother lealving her father (or vice versa) and her love for her father that you replaced in her mother's life. At this time, she's not over that. </p><p></p><p>It's common for teens not to explain their true feelings, even to therapists. But I'd bet the farm it's all about Mom and Dad and the divorce. A divorce isn't something kids really get over with no damage. My own kids had a hard time and hub got the brunt of it. But, yeah, they moved out and are all on their own now and things are much better. In fact, they include my hub like he's just part of the family. but it took all this time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 368508, member: 1550"] Hehe...a lot got better when the kids started seeing their father for who he is. But it took a long time because, as my grown daughter has told me, "I didn't want to think about another man touching you. It made me angrier than I can even explain." Although people don't want to admit it (as I didn't want to admit it) our kids, even teens and sometimes adult kids, hate seeing their parents with other "honeys." And, sure, we deserve to be happy too, but kids don't understand and accept that we love somebody other than Dad and often this leads to deepseated resentment that sometimes goes away and sometimes doesn't. My youngest daughter has a lot of friends who have to bounce from house to house because of divorces and none of them like it nor do they particularly care for at least one of their parent's SO's. It's not really about you. It's about her mother lealving her father (or vice versa) and her love for her father that you replaced in her mother's life. At this time, she's not over that. It's common for teens not to explain their true feelings, even to therapists. But I'd bet the farm it's all about Mom and Dad and the divorce. A divorce isn't something kids really get over with no damage. My own kids had a hard time and hub got the brunt of it. But, yeah, they moved out and are all on their own now and things are much better. In fact, they include my hub like he's just part of the family. but it took all this time. [/QUOTE]
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