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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP the most toxic relationship of my life was one where I was dealing with constant drama from my boyfriend’s teenaged daughter. She was 13 when we started seeing each other and 15 when I finally walked. I loved her and we had some good times together - she actually keeps in touch with me now and is estranged from her father - but her drama basically undermined the relationship and I don’t honestly know if we couldn’t have made it just fine had she been living with her mother and not her father. Some days it just felt like she was jealous of me and we were in competition for the same man - it was weird. No, I don’t think there was anything inappropriate between them. I just think that preteen and teen girls can be very toxic and it can be really hard to parent them from the place of a solid long term relationship, much less a new relationship where you are de facto stepmother but without any really authority in her eyes.

If you’re not really in love with this guy, if you have reservations about him - I would say walk now before things get uglier. [/quote]

This. I never date men with daughters. Of any age. I only date men with sons or men with no kids.[/quote]

Yep. You got it! Single mom with pre-teen dd here: while I had no problem at all of having my bf around my dd, my ex's dating life is non-existent due to the same-gender dynamic of new partner and child.
OP still seems to be in earlier dating stage. Just run and date someone with a son or no kids. I'd also like to say that a child feeling the urge to control a parent's love life may have been neglected or deprived of attention during marriage and divorce. [/quote]

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