I agree with the praise for Red Dobe's note.

Prudie's response to this one-sided letter was off. The responses in this forum attest to as being on the other side of the aisle of this relationship. My dad remarried after my mother died. We all got along OK, but I only saw his wife every other month or so. That is until she started treating my dad very badly in front of us. After a period of time they separated and the scope of this bad behavior became clear. For reasons of his own, he has gone back to her and I am unapologetically cold to rebuilding our relationship, I'm civil but nothing more. I won't expose my children to the sort of horrid behavior that she can't help but display.