DEAR DEIDRE: MY girlfriend resents me going on holiday with my daughter, believing we shouldn’t go away together. She thinks I should have invited her and her daughter too. I am a 37-year-old dad. My girlfriend is 34 and my daughter is ten. She lives with her mum. I have been with my girlfriend for […]
DEAR DEIDRE: MY girlfriend resents me going on holiday with my daughter, believing we shouldn’t go away together.
She thinks I should have invited her and her daughter too.
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I am a 37-year-old dad. My girlfriend is 34 and my daughter is ten. She lives with her mum.
I have been with my girlfriend for three years, but we have split several times.
When I insisted on spending time with my daughter, my girlfriend contacted her ex and the three of them spent time together in my absence. I think she did it out of spite.
I ended up agreeing to take my girlfriend and her daughter away for a week, just the three of us, as a compromise, but to this day she hasn’t forgotten or forgiven me for booking a holiday with my daughter.
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I don’t think I am doing anything wrong taking precious father-and-daughter time like this.
My daughter gets on with my girlfriend and her daughter, but I feel that time with my own daughter is paramount and my girlfriend should understand.
DEIDRE SAYS: It is great that you are such a hands-on parent.
Your girlfriend sees your daughter as a threat and maybe she envies how close you are.
Reassure your girlfriend you love her but if she continues to be aggrieved, you will have to think carefully about the future of your relationship.
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