I am engaged to marry
a wonderful man that is younger than
myself. I have been
married and divorced with a 20 and 18 year old. The 20
year old no longer
lives with me but the 18 year old does. The man I am
going to marry has
custody of an 8 year old, which he got custody of her
within the past 8
months. Things are pretty good but I have noticed lately
she is becoming very
jealous of us and demands 100% of our attention all of
her waking hours. She
got mad the other night because 30 minutes before her bedtime I said that I
didn't want to play games anymore (like we had been doing for 2 hours) but to
sit and relax in front of the tv. I sat on the
couch, he laid on the
couch with his head in my lap. She sat on the other
couch and pouted. I
asked her what was wrong (well knowing she was mad
because I wasn't
still playing with her and knowing she was jealous because
he laid on the couch
with me), she would not answer me. I ignored the
situation but am at
my witt’s end of what to do about this jealousy and
amount of attention
she is demanding. When she first came to live with us I
was understanding of
it because it was something new for her, moving to
daddy’s as we took
her away from her mom. What should I do?
