Psychologist Allison Keating answers your queries about life and relationships
Blended families can raise a lot of questions around who receives what kind of treatment. Picture: Getty
Question: My son has met a woman who makes him very happy. They have been together two years and are madly in love and have a baby coming towards the end of the summer. She is a nice woman, if a bit pushy, and she has two children from a previous relationship who are primary school age. They are perfectly nice children and I would have met them maybe three times altogether.
The point, from my husband’s and my point of view, is that we are expected to treat these near strangers equally to our grandchildren. And I am not just talking about when they are in our company – which of course is absolutely right and proper, and I have no problem with that. He wants us to spend the same amount on presents, even though we didn’t see them at Christmas as they spent the holiday with her family, and also in terms of the sum of money I give each grandchild on their birthday.
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