Reply To: Lack of Boundaries Between Boyfriend and His Soon-to-Be Ex

It just seems odd to me that he would want to cook dinner every night for the woman that left him after 20 years. The “kids” are 16 and 18, old enough to understand that when parents divorce, you don’t go to Florida for 10 days together for spring break or eat dinner together every night. If they were 6 and 8, I would be much more understanding about them spending time together to ease the transition for them, but after two and half years for their lives to still need so intertwined, it makes me feel like the side chick. Even if you don’t think two months is a long time, wouldn’t you have maybe cooked a meal for the person you’re dating by that point instead of making plans for after the dinner you share with your wife and kids?