Disappointed Stepdad
Dear Dr. Weiss-Wisdom, My wife and I have been married for two years. She has children from a previous marriage. Since, I don’t have any children, I was hoping to be a father figure to her kids. But it just hasn’t worked out that way. They reject any of my attempts to discipline them and that’s probably because my wife doesn’t support me. Instead she protects them and says I’m too hard on them. When the kids are with their Dad we get along great. It’s like we fall in love all over again. But when the kids are around, she and I feel alienated from each other.
Primary topic: Blended Families
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