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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 359609" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Just sending hugs. It's a difficult situation and with divorces and blended families there is apt to be some sort of drama. difficult child is going through it with her boyfriend and his ex (mother of his children), I have friends who have gone through it, etc.; it's not pretty.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">All you can do is maintain and live up to your own personal standards and stay strong. No matter what you say or how you try to make your point or reason with them, it will amount to nothing. Just do as you've been doing and in the end you will be better for it.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">One time back in 1995, after I had major surgery, I just didn't want to part with my girls for Christmas (they were supposed to go to ex's and his family) so I spoke with ex and explained and he begrudgingly accepted my decision (he <em>could </em>have driven up to get them, but he never offered). Well, his entire family was upset but the main difficult child, his loud mouthed rude sister, called me to b***h me out. It was outrageous - I could barely walk upright, my mother came in from AZ to care for me and the girls, a very difficult time, and here was this crazy woman from VA calling me to scream at me and call me a ***** among other things. I just quietly hung up. Later, when I related it to exh, he said, "Ignore her, she's nuts" and that was that. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Stuff happens and situations arise, ESPECIALLY with blended and step families that do not otherwise happen in nuclear traditional families. It is up to the TRUE adults to handle those situations appropriately - you're doing extremely well, considering all that you have to put up with, in my opinion. Hugs~</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 359609, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Just sending hugs. It's a difficult situation and with divorces and blended families there is apt to be some sort of drama. difficult child is going through it with her boyfriend and his ex (mother of his children), I have friends who have gone through it, etc.; it's not pretty.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]All you can do is maintain and live up to your own personal standards and stay strong. No matter what you say or how you try to make your point or reason with them, it will amount to nothing. Just do as you've been doing and in the end you will be better for it.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]One time back in 1995, after I had major surgery, I just didn't want to part with my girls for Christmas (they were supposed to go to ex's and his family) so I spoke with ex and explained and he begrudgingly accepted my decision (he [I]could [/I]have driven up to get them, but he never offered). Well, his entire family was upset but the main difficult child, his loud mouthed rude sister, called me to b***h me out. It was outrageous - I could barely walk upright, my mother came in from AZ to care for me and the girls, a very difficult time, and here was this crazy woman from VA calling me to scream at me and call me a ***** among other things. I just quietly hung up. Later, when I related it to exh, he said, "Ignore her, she's nuts" and that was that. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Stuff happens and situations arise, ESPECIALLY with blended and step families that do not otherwise happen in nuclear traditional families. It is up to the TRUE adults to handle those situations appropriately - you're doing extremely well, considering all that you have to put up with, in my opinion. Hugs~[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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