Dear Amy: Holding onto this secret has cost me a price, personally. On occasion I look like the 'bad guy' in our divorce, which is unfair to me.
Dear Amy: After many years of marriage and two children, my now ex-husband revealed that a few years before he and I met, when he was about 30 years old, he had a “consensual” sexual relationship with his 15-year-old, non-biological niece .I was devastated by this information and other serious problems in our marriage, and we divorced. We’ve been divorced for seven years. Our children are 15 and 17 years old.I haven’t told our kids – or my family – about this event.
The age differential between a 30-year-old and a 15-year-old makes this lack of consent more obvious .If you have any valid reason to suspect, believe, or worry that this behavior might continue , then you should notify your children.You have every right to loathe your ex for this sexual misconduct or for any other reason.
Otherwise, this is not your secret. It’s his. If the victim ever chooses to come forward, he will be forced to face this.I believe it’s more likely that they will resent you if you do tell them, because you would be transferring the burden of this knowledge from yourself onto them.In the interval, she had lost a lot of weight, looked great and was obviously feeling amazing.I asked her how she’d done it , and she named a weight-loss program I’d never heard of.
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