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[quote=Anonymous]OP -- If you can manage to go, go. However you get through it, your daughter will SO appreciate it and it really sends her the right message.

My parents were in a very similar situation (my dad had an affair with his close friend's wife and eventually married her; step mother was a good friend of my mom's -- pre-this, obviously -- when I was a kid and we used to vacation w/ the other couple and their kids). I wish my mom had sucked it up just once to do this thing you might be able/willing to do for your daughter. She never did and I didn't push it. I actually think that the fact that, six years later, your daughter still asks says FANTASTIC things about you as a mom and how you've been able to hide (or at least not put front and center) your bitterness from her. I split my time between my parents and never talked about my dad's in front of my mom; it made me feel like I had to walk on eggshells. And I did, because my mom couldn't have coped.

All of that is to say: If you can cope, do it. It's really worth it. If you can't, I totally get it and your DD will survive.[/quote]

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