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Oct 01, 2009
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Take The High Road
by: Eunice

I'm really sad to hear your story.

What can I say?

I'm a child of divorce myself and sometimes its not easy to warm up to your father's new wife. I was never mean but it definitely took me a while to warm up to the new person.

Sometimes children of divorce feel bitter because it seemed that you have replaced their beloved mother. They also may feel resentment towards their father and are acting out on you.

Nevertheless, it took many years of us being polite and cordial to seriously warm up to the new family. She was always very very nice and I suppose she understood why we were simply reserved.

I'll like to make the suggestion that you go. Continue being sweet and nice without "seeming desperately trying". Be absolutely gracious about it. If they choose to be reserved, let it be and not push it. Let them call the shots ... afterall, you'll probably not see them too often.

Eventually, hopefully, they will see you as no threat but good for their father. But even if it doesn't come to that. It is better for you not to stress too much about it by accepting that.

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