Is this cake-eating? 12

[greatwhitenorth]

I still keep in touch with my step daughter. We have a great relationship. I don't know what her father thinks of it and to be perfectly honest I don't care. He was mad initially but he was also in full blown lost his mind at the time. Now when we speak her names comes up in a way that suggests he respects my role in her life. I wanted to provide a lesson to her about relationships and people....they don't just drop out of your life. H's mother on the other hand...I now see her more clearly than I ever did. She's the one keeping her son down by not letting him be a man and take responsibility for his choices. But that's another story. I have nothing nice to say to or about that woman.

So is these relationships have value to you on their own, outside your marriage, then by all means keep them up. But if you can't honestly say that this is the case then why bother?