Her Young Children Were Upset About Their Stepsiblings’ Perspective Of Her Husband’s Previous Divorce, So She Had Her Kids Put Themselves Into Her Stepchildren’s Shoes, And Her In-Laws Thought That Was A Totally Inappropriate Way To Handle The Situation

And apparently, her transparency really resonated with her kids. The following day, she checked in with them, and they appeared to be feeling much better.

Her stepchildren also thanked her for being so understanding and for explaining it to the little ones– since they believe that they might have hurt their little stepsiblings’ feelings had they tried to explain the situation.

At that point, she also took the time to talk to her stepchildren, too. She told them that they should never feel ashamed of their feelings surrounding their parent’s divorce.

“And that they are normal and being kids of divorce is something not everyone fully understands,” she added.

So, everything was all good at home for a while after that. Well, that was until her younger children ended up discussing their conversation with her in-laws, and her in-laws apparently “blew a fuse.”

In fact, they claimed that it was wholly inappropriate for her to have such a mature conversation with young children and accused her of making the children think it is okay to not accept change and believe parents “owe it to their kids” to stay together.

Her husband did take her side, at least, and told his parents that they were overexaggerating and seriously overreacting about what happened. In spite of her husband supporting her, though, she has now started to question the parenting decision she made. So now, she has been left wondering if having her kids put themselves in her stepchildren’s shoes was the right way to handle the situation or not.

If her children were already aware of the situation and clearly upset, isn’t it best that she addressed it and sensitively explained their stepsiblings’ feelings? Would it have been worse to leave the situation and allow her kids to feel unloved or unwanted? Is there a certain age when these conversations become “appropriate,” or is it based on circumstance? If you had been in her shoes, would you have handled the situation differently?

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