Blended family tensions: Husband feels wife prioritizes adult sons over marriage
By
R. Eric Thomas
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Summary
A husband writes to advice columnist Eric about a marital impasse with his wife of three years in a blended family. He feels his wife prioritizes her grown sons from her first marriage over their relationship, particularly enabling her 27-year-old alcoholic son who hasn't worked in three years and lives with his father. The wife cannot cut the apron strings, creating tension in the marriage.
Key quotes
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The older son is enabled by his parents and has not worked in three years while his father provides him a free place to live while he is sadly drinking his life away.
We are at an impasse in our marriage.
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