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I was reading a magazine at lunch and in a column a woman was saying she’d been married for 11 years and every year her husband and she would spend the holidays with HIS family – his family consisting of his 3 boys AND his ex-wife! She was saying it was one thing when the boys were little, but it’s different now that they are 25, 23, and 20. I can’t really believe the kind of nonsense some people put up with! What family is she to him anyway?! In the meantime all these years she hasn’t spent any holiday with her own children from a previous marriage!
What do you think about this? Does any of you do that?
I was reading a magazine at lunch and in a column a woman was saying she’d been married for 11 years and every year her husband and she would spend the holidays with HIS family – his family consisting of his 3 boys AND his ex-wife! She was saying it was one thing when the boys were little, but it’s different now that they are 25, 23, and 20. I can’t really believe the kind of nonsense some people put up with! What family is she to him anyway?! In the meantime all these years she hasn’t spent any holiday with her own children from a previous marriage!
What do you think about this? Does any of you do that?
WOW!!!! I don't think I would be able to do that. Maybe every other year and only if we did the same thing with both sides!
Exactly. I don't understand why they couldn't have the holidays with their respective children only in their own house (on alternate basis as many do)... She didn't specify, but it sounded like she was getting together with his family in the ex-wife's house. Oh, well, I guess my own marriage to a widower wasn’t much different.
I was reading a magazine at lunch and in a column a woman was saying she’d been married for 11 years and every year her husband and she would spend the holidays with HIS family – his family consisting of his 3 boys AND his ex-wife! She was saying it was one thing when the boys were little, but it’s different now that they are 25, 23, and 20. I can’t really believe the kind of nonsense some people put up with! What family is she to him anyway?! In the meantime all these years she hasn’t spent any holiday with her own children from a previous marriage!
What do you think about this? Does any of you do that?
I think it's stupid. The kids are old enough to put a stop to this. It's one thing when children are small. I can recall several thanksgivings where my father came to my mother's house to have dinner with us (stepfather present as well). But once he got remarried that was the end of that.
If there are small children involved and the parents can handle it, it's great.
But with the age of the children involved (who lets just say will be married soon and will have multiple sets of parents to visit anyway), this woman needs to speak up and discontinue this tradition
I can understand wanting to see your children on the holidays, but why the ex-wife. That does not sound normal, especially since he is remarried.
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In the meantime all these years she hasn’t spent any holiday with her own children from a previous marriage!
