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| A widowed dad keeps calling his second wife 'the love of his life' around the kids from his first wife, and one is resentful enough to limit contact. |
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| | | |  |  | | Advice to help you tackle life's problems. | | | | | |  (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Dear Carolyn: My father was widowed about five years ago and has remarried. Hurray. Except he keeps talking about his second wife as "the love of my life" in front of us and his grandchildren. I'm increasingly resentful of this phrase and have minimized contact with him as a result. He's complaining and I don't know what to say. "Quit [dumping] on the memory of my mother in my presence and you'll see us more than twice a year" is what I WANT to say. — Resentful | | | Want more?Carolyn's been writing her advice column for two decades. Explore the archives below. | | | | | | | | | |
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