A reader shares her experience being recently divorced with adult children.
I’m a recently divorced mom with three adult children. My husband was physically and emotionally abusive throughout our marriage. He originally left me and my three young children when they were just toddlers, but we eventually reconciled.
Several years later, after two of our children were married, he again filed for divorce and moved out and purchased a new home without me. The divorce was very acrimonious. As of this date, despite the judgment against him, he has failed to pay alimony and still owes a significant amount of assets from the original settlement.
Meanwhile, he appears to be living happily ever after and has even remarried. My two sons don’t want anything to do with him, but my daughter continues to communicate with him. She has even hosted him at her house. I can’t believe she would want anything to do with him after all of the terrible things he has done.
How can I convince her to change her mind? How can I persuade her to tell her dad that his new wife is not welcome, if I can’t convince her to cut off communication with her dad entirely? --Your ex-husband does not sound like a very nice man, but he is still the father of your children. He is half of each of them.
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