Divorce child anon here. My parents divorced when I was 2 or 3 years old because my mom found a new man (she's now married to him and we get along pretty well), but my dad took quite a while of going from one woman to the next (obviously since he was thrown back into the dating phase) and eventually found a new woman when I was around 6. We do get along but she's a little more quiet and we're not really getting into contact that much. I'm about to turn in 2 weeks now and they have a daughter, my 7YO step sister. Now I know that my mom broke up back then because they weren't getting along all too well over time and I've witnessed the same thing going on with the two after a couple of years.
We're heading to my aunts birthday just now and when the girls were off to the bathroom while we waited in the car, he talked to me after they've had another silent argument (not even that bad if you ask me) about their daughters eating habits or something. He told me that he's been thinking about living alone for years now because she's stressing him out so much. They apparentl don't talk to each other at all at home if he doesn't take the initiative for a minimum of conversation and wouldn't even be doing it if it wasn't for him.
They're quite different in how they try to raise her which obviously makes for a lot of trouble at times, like my dad was always strict but with reason, allowing for more freedom than my mom at times, when he viewed it as reasonable, while her mother is a weird mix of being extremely lenient (my sister is also allowed to do just about whatever when she's at her parents' place apparently) and being strict but inconcequent about it. Like I'm visiting them and playing with her while we're fast approaching bed time and she goes "no, anonsis, you're going to bed in a minute", meanwhile she's walking around the flat doing whatever.
Anyone has an idea/advice on this? Idk if he'd listen to my advice but I'd rather he tried to make a change.
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OP here, meant to say I'll turn 20 in two weeks.
>>722833959
Team up with whichever side you think would be best for her. In this case I'd talk to your dad n see what you can do to help
>>722835342
I was going to tell him there's surely something they based their relationship on, so he should go and see if he can just get back to it to get into touch again more