Article: WHEN PARENTS DATE A NEW PARTNER IN YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER'S LIFE MAY SEEM THREATENING

If your parents are divorced and start going out with somebody new, it may be upsetting to see them in this new role. Living with one parent may have made you extra close, and you may feel that a possible new partner is threatening. Their dating may shatter your secret hope that your parents will get back together. Yet you also want them to be happy. Dear Beth:

I live with my mom and little brother. She has a new boyfriend. I don't like her boyfriend very much, and she acts ridiculous, all giggly and girlish. I have to baby-sit. Am I selfish to feel kind of left out? Pearl Not selfish, normal. It's natural to have a lot of mixed-up emotions when your mother dates: jealousy that ...

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