I really need help managing a very difficult situation. My husband is not my daughter's dad. He has been in her life since she was 4 and she is now 11. She has no siblings.
He is quite critical and expects too much from her and she is jealous of him taking my attention away from her. I am stuck in the middle. As she is getting older their conflicts are escalating and I am getting stuck for how to deal with it. Sometimes he is genuinely being unfair to her and telling her off for something that doesn't really matter and sometimes she is just being rude and stroppy at him for no reason. Today she told him that I married the wrong man and he stormed off and refused to come out for the afternoon with us as he was not able to spend any time with "that kid". I can see both points of view but don't know how to sort this out. He is now sulking in our bedroom and she is sulking in hers. I feel sick and tearful and don't know what to do.
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phenobarbidoll · 03/11/2018 17:18
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