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Dad doesn't know how to talk to daughter about mom's infidelity
Eric advises telling the daughter the truth with age-appropriate honesty and support, noting the right approach depends on her age and the family’s trust.
- A father is grappling with a decades-old secret, questioning whether he acted correctly by shielding his daughter from the truth about her mother's infidelity with a coworker.
- Upon discovering his wife's affair years ago, the man chose to withhold the information to protect the daughter's bond with her mother, establishing a 'timetable' for disclosure at age 16.
- At age 12, the child sensed this hidden history, specifically asking her father if the affair partner 'was around' in her mother's life during the marriage.
- Decades later, the woman and her mother maintain a 'cool, though polite' relationship, leaving the father to reflect on whether his silence impacted their connection.
- Advice columnist Eric Thomas suggests the father acted from good intent, noting the current distance in the mother-daughter relationship is not within the father's power to fix.
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Asking Eric: Should I have told my daughter?
Dear Eric: When it was revealed that my wife had been cheating for a few years with a coworker who later became my children's stepfather half the time, I wanted to protect my daughter's relationship with her mother. My son was too young to understand any of this at the time.
·Chicago, United States
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Leaning Left2Leaning Right1Center11Last UpdatedBias Distribution79% Center
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