I’m a 52-year-old divorcée and I’ve fallen in love with a 29-year-old man who treats me beautifully. I’ve worked hard all my life, I am a mother of three, grandmother of two, and I’m finally having fun.
But my family think it’s obscene and won’t accept him – in fact they spent Christmas with my ex-husband and his (much younger) wife.
Why can’t they be happy for me? I feel furious with them but also want them to accept him. Help! Love – IrateA First up Irate, congratulations on finding fun.
Remind yourself that you deserve this fun. We have spent too long thinking about motherhood as a kind of martyrdom, whereby you spend your life in a state of hyper-vigilance making sure everybody else is OK at the expense of your own OK.
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