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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The affair has nothing to do with the daughter and should not impact the mother-daughter relationship.  I get that the daughter is mad the mom had an affair and broke up the family (except now she is saying she wishes her dad had left mom years earlier?!).  But affair is a non issue for the daughter - the affair is only a issue with husband. The daughter is going to spend mosrt of her twenties and early thirties dealing psychologically with the bad relationhsip with her mom unless you can get it back on track. Do you really want daughter to have this level of emotional baggage so that you can win and be the good parent?   Mom and daughter need to go to joint counselling. [/quote]

I had similar thoughts as I was reading the post although OP did mention there are some other character issues with mom towards daughter (i.e. emotionally abusive, cold/distant, etc.).  That said, you only get one mom and if you think further out about some of the traditional mom/daughter moments (wedding, childbirth, etc.) and ongoing relationship type things (being a grandparent for example) I think there is value in them fixing their relationship as best they can.  [/quote]

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