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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like your daughter is the one to talk to first. He's too young to interpret what she's telling him to say in a broader context because he simply doesn't have a broader context yet.

But you could start by asking her what she is feeling about mom, and what she means by "far away."[/quote]

My daughter and I talk a lot.  She knows what she is saying isn’t true, but finds the truth too painful and personal to share with random people.[/quote]

Who cares if she lies? It isn't people's business where her mother is or isn't. My daughter's BFF was effectively abandoned by her father. I innocently asked one time if she was seeing her dad at a holiday (I knew the parents were divorced). She told me he lived far away. I accepted it at face value and moved on (realized that I shouldn't have asked her at all). Mom and I got to know each better and I learned ex lives within an hour and just doesn't want to see kids. I didn't feel "lied" to by a child. She was just making an excuse to end the conversation and move on.[/quote]

I am not concerned about her telling this to her friends or other outsiders.  It makes me sad that she feels like she has to respond, but I am not upset with her.  I am just saying that she does in fact know where her mother lives.[/quote]

OP: Why are you focusing on this? Go watch a cartoon that you can talk about together! Read a silly book together.   This is sad thread. Move on! Get off the phone [/quote]

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