My mom just found out my dad's been cheating on her. How do I deal with all of this from 3000 miles away?
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 5, 2013 -
27 answers
My sister (married, one child) and I (married, no kids) want to plan a joint family vacation. We do not want our parents (divorced, both remarried) to come. Our mom is extremely sensitive/dramatic, and we are hoping to avoid a major meltdown from her. Help?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 26, 2013 -
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Met the parents. They're crazy. Need to develop strategies to cope and set clear and unavoidable bondaries NOW before the cycle of stupid and exploitative behavior continues.
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posted by These Birds of a Feather
on Jul 6, 2011 -
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My parents are splitting up after 36 years. My dad will be buying a house of his own. If he gets a place with a basement suite and I move into it, what pitfalls should I be aware of? I'm 30.
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posted by anonymous
on May 11, 2011 -
37 answers
Adult staying at home to help financially support parents, parents split up, total financial chaos ensues... NOW how/when am I going to become an independent, grown-up adult?
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posted by so_gracefully
on Dec 15, 2010 -
11 answers
How can I deal with Dad's sudden, one-sided announcement that his marriage to my mother is ending because he "reconnected" with his high school girlfriend?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 25, 2010 -
17 answers
I need help breaking the news of my impending divorce to family members who I do not think will be supportive because they see me as the family fuck-up.
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 19, 2010 -
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My parents are pushing 70 and have been married for almost 50 years, and now they're talking about divorce. How can my siblings and I help?
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posted by RingerChopChop
on Nov 15, 2010 -
36 answers
How can I be most helpful & supportive to my wife as her parents go through a trial separation?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 8, 2010 -
7 answers
I want to perform some sort of ritual to observe the finalization of my parents' divorce but have no idea where to begin.
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posted by coppermoss
on Oct 10, 2010 -
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Just received an email from my dad that my mom has found someone else and he's asked for a divorce. I need some advice on best practices for dealing with this.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 18, 2010 -
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How Am I Supposed To Feel About My Mom Cheating On My Dad? And Draining Family Money? (desperate for any help or advice)
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posted by xopaigexo
on Apr 7, 2010 -
29 answers
My parents split about a year ago. My father has started dating under unusual circumstances, and it makes me somewhat angry. Am I overreacting? How can I find peace with the situation?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 4, 2009 -
32 answers
30 years after my father is gone, I wonder what intangibles he denied me. How do I get a sneak peak into the world of a daddy‘s girl?
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 30, 2009 -
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Parents splitting up after 35 years -- maybe temporarily, but I'm betting on the long-term. They're both crazy, but my mom is C-R-A-Z-Y, and her poisonous attitude has now doomed this relationship for good. Our own relationship has always been strained, but how do I even begin to relate to her now?
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posted by Madamina
on Oct 8, 2008 -
20 answers
If your parents divorced when you were a kid, how do you now wish they'd handled it?
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posted by jon1270
on Aug 12, 2008 -
25 answers
My 60 year old mom, married 40 years to a husband with NPD, is drinking and crying in the evenings, angrily lashing out, taking sleeping pills in order to sleep at night, and anguishing over whether she can leave her marriage. How can I help her?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 3, 2008 -
9 answers
My parents are getting a divorce. How do I support them? How do I relate to them without it being terribly weird on me? How do I stop worrying about them so much?
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posted by salvia
on Jun 30, 2008 -
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My divorced parents are both going to be at my college graduation party. How do I deal with this?
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posted by anonymous
on May 14, 2008 -
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Imminently divorcing parents, naive and idealistic father, playing therapist to adults - the works. Help me not hate my family!
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 27, 2007 -
23 answers
How do I best get acquainted, and develop a good relationship, with my boyfriends' kids?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 14, 2007 -
13 answers
I think my parents are on the road to divorce. I'm away at college in another state- my younger siblings are not. Warning, much, much-
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 31, 2006 -
15 answers
