When Your Widowed Parent Starts Dating Again

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dating as a widow

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She’s an adult who can take care of herself

You don’t need to figuratively or literally sit on the front porch with a shotgun letting your parents’ dates know they better have her home by curfew “or else…!” She’s an adult. She can take care of herself. She knows how to demand respect from dates. Remember that she taught you all about how to do that.

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