well, I'm not so sure how good they are. I truly expected them to support the marriage--I'd known them for a long time. And they didn't at all, except my oldest niece (who's an adult, an attorney). and she's kind of faded away too. Of course, I have no way of knowing what he told them about me and about our marriage, so they could well be operating under false pretenses. If they fade away, that's one thing, but the "cut-off" is a far more dysfunctional action (according to family systems theory).


M60
H52
D20
M14 yrs
OW-old gf from 1986
bomb-5/18/08
H filed for D-9/10/08
D final 4/24/09
xH remarried (not OW) 2012