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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 557852" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Hello and welcome to a fellow Englishwoman (though I am exiled in France now) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>I'm going to speak quite plainly, so do excuse me if this seems over-blunt or inappropriate. I agree with MWM. Your partner is not just being a pain in the neck about this - he is trying to be the best parent he can, and that is something you could admire in him. I appreciate that it is very difficult to live with your partner's son's behaviour, and that you have not done anything to "merit" it but, frankly, it is not just difficult children that react badly to someone replacing their mother/father. Unfortunately your partner comes as a package - he comes with his children and with his special needs child. I think you have to try to widen your heart to accommodate that and start welcoming the child yourself, however hard that is, as a precious part of the life of the man you love - or decide that you can't and move out, perhaps to conduct the relationship at a safer distance.</p><p>Just how it seems to me... from the luxury of the outside.... warm wishes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 557852, member: 11227"] Hello and welcome to a fellow Englishwoman (though I am exiled in France now) :) I'm going to speak quite plainly, so do excuse me if this seems over-blunt or inappropriate. I agree with MWM. Your partner is not just being a pain in the neck about this - he is trying to be the best parent he can, and that is something you could admire in him. I appreciate that it is very difficult to live with your partner's son's behaviour, and that you have not done anything to "merit" it but, frankly, it is not just difficult children that react badly to someone replacing their mother/father. Unfortunately your partner comes as a package - he comes with his children and with his special needs child. I think you have to try to widen your heart to accommodate that and start welcoming the child yourself, however hard that is, as a precious part of the life of the man you love - or decide that you can't and move out, perhaps to conduct the relationship at a safer distance. Just how it seems to me... from the luxury of the outside.... warm wishes. [/QUOTE]
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