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[quote=Anonymous]It’s fine if parents of adult children want to divorce and remarry. However, they need to understand that their pursuit of happiness doesn’t mean that their adult children will sacrifice their happiness to enable this.

You will end up with less time especially if you live far away. It probably will not be equally divided nor do you and your ex get to dictate who gets what holiday or how many vacation days. It’s cute if you and your ex decide he gets Thanksgiving and you get Christmas. Your adult kids may not be in the position of spending $$$$ and PTO to travel at both Thanksgiving and Christmas, they may be married and have another set of demanding elders in the mix, they may want to go on a vacation themselves or just chill at home. The divide visits equally crap is a living hell with parents and in laws, if one set is divorced the concept has to go out the window.

If you remarry and add in a step parent, step siblings, or another set of kids there likely will be issues. Do what you want but don’t expect your original kids to love being disinherited as you leave everything to the step parent and lavish gifts and money on the step siblings while doing nothing for the original kids. Awesome that you get a do over but be mindful that the originals will be hurt.

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