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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are teenage boys. Do teenage boys really care about having a relationship with or getting attention from a middle aged woman who did not know them before? [/quote]

Teenage boys want a relationship with their father. If their father takes up with a woman who has no interest in knowing them in a meaningful way, that threatens the relationship with their father. Whether or not teenage boys can articulate it at the time, what they will likely want in the long run is to not feel like strangers in their dad's home and to be meaningfully incorporated into his intimate life, because that how kids should be (not INTIMATE but you know what I mean, inner circle).

So if this middle aged woman is going to be their father's lifetime companion, someone who their child might one day think of as a grandparent or grandparent like figure, then the good thing for that kid is to try to have a warm, friendly, trusting relationship with that woman. Doesn't have to be a mother-son operation, doesn't have to be best friends. But it needs to be more than, 'that lady my dad has over when we're at our moms who seems to not talk to us much'[/quote]

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