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When your child refuses to accept your new relationship

I started dating someone and my 12-year-old daughter said she will never accept anyone replacing her father and I do not know if I should choose love or my child.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent faces an impossible choice between their own emotional future and their child's current emotional security.

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