Introducing a New Partner to Your Children: A Guide for Single Parents
When and how to introduce a new partner to your children after divorce or bereavement: timing, preparing them, the first meeting, difficult reactions, your ex, and sleepovers.
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Children & family
Introducing a new partner to children and adult children, and bringing families together.
Start here: Introducing a New Partner to Your Children: A Guide for Single Parents5 guides
Topic: Children & family
Introducing a new partner to children and adult children, and bringing families together.
Dating Someone With Young Children When You’re an Empty Nester
Dating a parent with children still at home when yours have left? What to expect, the challenges for each of you, building a relationship with their children, and deciding if it’s right for you.
Telling Friends, Family and Your Late Spouse’s Family That You’re Dating Again
How and when to tell your children, friends and your late spouse’s family that you’re dating again after bereavement: who to tell first, what to say and how to handle reactions.
When Your New Relationship Stirs Up Your Children’s Grief
Why a widowed parent’s new relationship can reawaken children’s grief, how it shows at different ages, what helps and what to avoid, and when to get specialist support.
When Adult Children Disapprove of Your New Partner
Your grown-up children are unhappy about your new relationship. Why it happens, what is really behind it (including inheritance worries), and practical ways to keep your family and your relationship.
More guides on the way
We publish each guide when it’s properly researched, not before. Here’s what’s on the way:
- How to blend two families after 50In progress
- Dating someone with grandchildren when you have noneIn progress
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