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When protecting your child's relationship enables their parent's neglect

My ex-husband is not paying child support and I know he can afford it but my daughter loves him and I do not want her to see him as irresponsible.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are sacrificing your own needs to preserve your child's idealized view of someone who is failing them both.

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