Dear Queenie,
My boyfriend is divorced. He has a couple of kids and his ex, their mother, has custody. His ex is not someone we want to socialize with but she is there at all the kids’ activities – sports, birthday parties, things like that, but she also keeps showing up at my boyfriend’s family’s gatherings, even if she wasn’t invited and we were the ones that brought the kids, and we don’t want to say anything that will hurt the kids.
Queenie, what can we do about this?—Disgusted
Dear Disgusted,
There is not much you can do except put up with it for the children’s sake, as you said. Eventually, when the children are older (maybe when they are grown up and out on their own) it probably will be less of a problem for you. Until then, as I said, you will just have to put up with it – for the children’s sake.
