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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been divorced from my husband for over a year.  Recently, he started bringing his girlfriend around our kids all the time.  She is watching them when he is unavailable.  And attending high school events as well.  I have no respect for my ex-husband and our marriage did not end on great terms.  We do not co-parent; we parallel parent.

I am trying to get comfortable with a woman being around my children and it is a struggle for me.  I am wondering how others in my situation have dealt with this and whether it made you anxious.  And how did you finally get comfortable with the situation.  While I know my kids adore me and we have a great relationship, I guess there is a slight worry that they may see her as the new shiny penny and me as the boring mom. [/quote]

I was never comfortable with it because he was mentally ill and most of the women he dated were also mentally ill or had some other issue that created unnecessary drama. He was also briefly remarried. That lasted shy of a year, but they had a really nasty divorce that she tried to drag me into although just months earlier she paid for a lawyer so he could try to get out of paying CS. I remained nervous about his dating partners until he died unexpectedly.

As for your other question. You won’t be replaced. It’s okay to be boring mom because the most important part of that title is mom. [/quote]

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