Hi! I am 34 years old and expecting my first child. My partner and I are thrilled and have a solid relationship of more than 8 years. My family situation is complicated and it appears that it may be even more so with the birth of this child. My parents divorced when I was about…
Dear Grandma Maggie, My daughter has a 6 year old disabled son. She is not married. She finished college and is now in law school. She went thru hell to get where she is. I quit work to help her even moved near to law school with my husband. I have spent any extra money…
Hi Grandma Maggie, I’d like to get an unbiased opinion. My husband of 3 years and I have a blended family. I am 39 and he is 38. From a previous marriage, I have an 11 yr old girl and 8 yr old boy and my husband has a 16 yr old girl and 15…
Ma’am: I’m a 23-year-old man and I live with my twin sister and her husband in the house in which she and I grew up. I was thrilled months ago when I discovered that they were expecting triplets! My trouble lies with my fiancé or, rather, her 4 y/o son, Milo, who lives with her…
Hi Grandma, My ex-wife left me for my army friend and got pregnant by him while we were separated. We went to court and I had visitation rights at reasonable places and time. Well, she took my daughters to Germany. 20 years later I found out she was back in the states. A few years…
Dear Grandma Maggie, My ex and I have a beautiful 2 year old girl. I separated from my ex about a year and some months ago. He saw her a little less than a month after we separated. Since then he has not seen her, but has asked to see her twice. I am hesitant…
Dear Maggie: My 11-year-old step-daughter has been very very rude to me. She seems to think that I tore her apart from her mother and sister when I came into the picture. I do not wish for her to think that and I would ever want to ruin her special bond with her mother. I…
Dear Grandma Maggie, I am 24 years old. My ex-fiance is 29 and he left my child and me when she was 3 months old. Now he calls everyday and tells us that he loves us and misses her. He has also moved in with another woman. Is he scared of responsibility? Is their anything…
Dear Grandma Maggie, I just got married to my wife recently. She has a two year old daughter from another man, who doesn’t pay child support. He gets supervised visits with his daughter every week, under supervision of my wife’s parents, but only shows up once a month. My step-daughter and I get along great…
Dear Grandma, I have been divorced for 4 years, and have a 14 year old daughter and a 19 year old son. I recently began dating a nice man – my first date after divorce – and my daughter is not taking this well at all. Yesterday, I told her that he was coming to…
Dear Grandma Maggie, I am a mother of a 22 month old daughter and a 3 month old son. I am currently in quite a difficult & stressful relationship with their father. I fear my children can sense my distress. I try not to show it when I am around them but my daughter is…
