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Raven.
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Alicia
So my fiancé and I have been together in a loving relationship. For quite sometime. He has a child and I am coming into the marriage childless. I feel like he’s kinda put me in a pickle having a relationship with his daughter. He is concerned with how his daughter will feel as a stepchild and doesn’t want her to grow up feeling the way he felt as a stepchild child. Completely understood, I’ve never been anything but super nice to his daughter. In addition, his belief is that people treat children that aren’t their biological child differently than they treat their own child/children. This I’m concerned with…he wants me to have a close relationship with her though she’s not interested. I’ve taken a step back as a result and told him I’ll let her come to me when she’s ready if that would ever come. I’m not in control of that, I feel he’s really pushing it for himself and not for the best interest of his daughter. She has a close relationship with her mom and him. I think it’s best to stay out of a parental role that being said in addition due to what he feels about people feeling differently when the child isn’t their biological child. It puts me in a complex situation to get involved at all with opinions/ advice and especially in a parental role. Any thoughts?
Raven
Hi Alicia, I’ve read your question a couple of times…
The only advice I can offer, don’t marry this man until you two have resolved this. It will ‘worsen’ for lack of a better term if you haven’t…
Good luck
Alicia
Raven: I appreciate your advice. I think I may get where you’re coming from by if you don’t mind me asking, I want to make sure I do understand your take regarding it worsening. Do you care to explain.
Raven
Hi Alicia, You wrote, “I feel he’s really pushing it for himself and not for the best interest of his daughter.”
He will push you more.
How long have you two been engaged & how long together?
Alicia
We’ve been together 5 years and engaged now for 6 months.
Alicia
I don’t understand why he’d be pushing something his daughter clearly doesn’t want (me having a connection/bond with her) right now. That part I’m just really puzzled by because she’s very close to her mother and him.
Raven
Hi Alicia, In your first post, you wrote about ‘his’ reasons. What is his daughter’s age?
How long has he been pushing? Your entire relationship or just since your engagement?
I’m curious, what other things is he pushy about?
Alicia
He’s been pushing for the daughter and I to have a relationship since the beginning, the day I met her. She’s now 12 years old. He’s also been pushing for me to get pregnant which hasn’t happened and that has been for quite a while. It’s been slightly stressful each time he mentions it after my cycle ends and wanting to make sure we are intimate during my window of ovulation. He’s even taken his daughter to her mother’s house to stay after finding out I was ovulating so we could be intimate.
Raven
Sounds like you’re not ready to have a baby or at least not with this guy?
From an outsiders view- Him being so pushy about you getting pregnant is a little icky…
Again, I’m curious if he’s pushy about other things.
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