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Confession: I don't like my difficult child's girlfriend, at all
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 571087" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>Both of my boys married girls I didn't like. I made the best of it. Now they are both divorced. I think I am old enough to have some perspecive on this. First of all, you don't have any real control over who your kids marry (and probably you shouldn't - I shudder to think who my parents would have picked out for me- LOL). If your difficult child is like most, the best you can do is be really nice to the girl and make him think you love her dearly (for 2 reasons). First of all, if he does marry her, you will not start out with bad feelings and he will have nothing bad to say about how you feel about her. Second, usually the better you like them, the less interested difficult children become. </p><p>We raise our difficult children the best we can. LIke all kids, sometimes they make good choices and sometimes they make bad ones but by the time they are old enought to marry, we have very little say over what they do. We can either accept them and their significant others or we can cut off all contact. I've opted for the first choice.</p><p>I used to have a friend who said, everytime she spent time with her son's wife she would go home and stick her head in the toilet and scream for half an hour. It let her get out her frustrations without letting anybody know how she felt. Seems like a reasonable reaction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 571087, member: 135"] Both of my boys married girls I didn't like. I made the best of it. Now they are both divorced. I think I am old enough to have some perspecive on this. First of all, you don't have any real control over who your kids marry (and probably you shouldn't - I shudder to think who my parents would have picked out for me- LOL). If your difficult child is like most, the best you can do is be really nice to the girl and make him think you love her dearly (for 2 reasons). First of all, if he does marry her, you will not start out with bad feelings and he will have nothing bad to say about how you feel about her. Second, usually the better you like them, the less interested difficult children become. We raise our difficult children the best we can. LIke all kids, sometimes they make good choices and sometimes they make bad ones but by the time they are old enought to marry, we have very little say over what they do. We can either accept them and their significant others or we can cut off all contact. I've opted for the first choice. I used to have a friend who said, everytime she spent time with her son's wife she would go home and stick her head in the toilet and scream for half an hour. It let her get out her frustrations without letting anybody know how she felt. Seems like a reasonable reaction. [/QUOTE]
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