"Please consider a change in attitude. You stated that your husband's children are polite and cordial with you. They may not dislike you as much as fear that getting too close to you might alienate their mother. Your husband should be able to invite his children into the home you share if he wishes, and the atmosphere should be as warm and welcoming as you can manage."
"My husband has two grown children from his first marriage and two grandchildren. When I met him, he was still in what he described as a very unhappy and unhealthy marriage of 30 years. Because of this, his family has labeled me a homewrecker. While his children are polite and cordial, we don't have any kind of relationship with each other."
A spouse feels labeled a homewrecker and resists hosting her husband's grown children for holidays despite their polite, cordial behavior and absence of a close relationship. The husband expects his children to spend part of holidays at the shared home. Advice recommends changing attitude, treating the atmosphere as warm and welcoming, and sharing hosting work so relationships with stepchildren can improve. A separate situation describes a couple returning home after years away and feeling lonely; a friend named Skip dominates social interactions, misrepresents the couple, monopolizes conversations, and leaves the husband feeling alienated.
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