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“My internal dialogue would sound like this: They loved each other and created me.  I am half of each of them.  But now they don’t love each other, so how can they possibly love me?  Maybe half of me.  That I could understand; but never all of me.  Not the parts that come from the other.  But I can’t be split in two, I can only be one whole person.  And if they can’t stand half of me, it’s not possible for them to love all of me.  Maybe I can hide.  But I can’t help being the constant reminder of the marriage they didn’t want.  I can’t help always requiring an explanation. Wouldn’t their lives be easier if I just didn’t exist?”

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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 August 2009 | 09:14

3RD STEP DATING TELECONFERENCE -

Step Dating with Adult Children in the Background

Our friends at the Step and Blended Family Institute are back again with the third installment in their step dating teleconference series: Step Dating with Adult Children in the Background.

Here, Step and Blended Family Institute Co-Founder Yvonne Kelly answers the question:

WHY A TELECONFERENCE ON STEP DATING WITH ADULT CHILDREN IN THE MIX?

“Many couples who date at a later stage in life when their children are grown, don’t anticipate any issues or resistance, for exactly that reason – because their children are grown and are for the most part busy with their own lives.  That is why couples are often very taken aback when their own children or their partner’s adult children don’t accept the new relationship readily or actually have a great deal of difficulty with their parent entering into a new relationship and make their thoughts and feelings on the subject very apparent.”

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Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 | 09:26