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Blessed with a wonderful EX son in law

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Even though my daughter divorced her former husband of almost 10 years and separated my grandchildren, I thank god for still having him in my life. Also, I feel so blessed to have such happy, beautiful grandchildren who are oblivious to the abnormal structure of their family.

The relationship that my daughter has with her ex husband and his new family is really helpful in keeping us all together in the best interest of the babies. Her ex husband still calls me mom and never treats me as if I'm anything but family.

I just want to share with all of you how truly blessed I feel to have a close family despite a divorce. And that its not always the beginning of hostility and end of harmony. God has blessed me and my family with the love to persevere.
 

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That is wonderful. Even though divorce is ugly. We recently had a divorce in our family (BIL and his wife) and have done our best to show support for his now ex-wife and their children. Our relationship with him is kind of a given, since he's related. So we try to make it clear that we didn't want to sever ties with her just because BIL walked out. We also trying to be gracious to BIL and the new girl he got pregnant while still married to his lovely ex-wife, because she's here to stay in terms of family due to their mutual child, even though we don't approve of what they did. I'm glad we took a hands-off approach to that fiasco (besides gently insisting they try to salvage the marriage early on), because if we had "taken sides," it wouldn't have changed anything, and it would have caused unnecessary conflict. It's a crummy situation, but as in-laws, all we can do is love them and cherish the children that have to grow up in the broken home BIL made for them.
 
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