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Sibling keeper -- Emotional "incest"?
There's a kind of inappropriate emotional closeness, it can be subtle sexualization, substitution of a child for a partner, or emotional intimacy inappropriate to a child.. Anyway, it seems that the woman writing about when she was ten and her mother confided her husband's affair to her and then expected her to simply ''forget'' it or ''get over ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by bobethomas on July 17, 2008
To 'The Banned One'
It's so amusing when people who choose to escape their purportedly miserable marriages do so by finding someone new and having an affair, and then expect all affected parties to forgive and accept and welcome the adulturous back into the warm family embrace. This situation isn't about a still bitter, betrayed ex-wife who may have poisoned her ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by BBaiett on June 21, 2008