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[quote=Anonymous]I have a co-worker who did this.  His oldest kids are in their mid-thirties, and his younger set of kids are in their late teens.  
I think it has its pluses and minuses.  He really does seem to love his wife, and she really enjoys being a mom.  He is working full time later in life than he wants to.  He has some guilt about not being there for his older kids, and he doesn’t have much of a relationship with them.

He is a physician and former military, and I think his first wife was kind of cold in some ways.  I mean, she married someone who she knew would be gone a lot.  His current wife is very, very warm and loving.  But his second set of kids are a little, I don’t know, soft?  Just not very tough.  They babysit for me sometimes and are nice kids, but they aren’t sure of their direction in life and don’t go out of their way to work too hard.  My colleague feels like he doesn’t really understand them and doesn’t feel that connected with them either.

I think he’s kind of lonely now that I write this out.  Most of his close friends from work have retired.  He doesn’t talk about being friends with his kids friends parents, and I can imagine that he feels old around them.  He does seem super close with his wife, though. Maybe he would be lonelier if he hadn’t married her and had a second family.  I don’t know.  [/quote]

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