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"I have a dilemma. I feel like I should speak to Peter about an issue Anna is having, but at the same time, logic tells me that&amp;#039;s not something I should be doing. Anna confided in me last night that she&amp;#039;s tired of spending every Dad weekend with Stacie and Maddie. It&amp;#039;s not because she dislikes them in any way \u2013 she likes Stacie just fine and she adores Maddie and considers her a sister now. It&amp;#039;s just that she wishes she and David could have some time with Dad as just the three of them. As soon as she told me, I said &amp;quot;Anna, you need to tell Daddy this. He probably doesn&amp;#039;t realize you&amp;#039;d like a little more alone time with him.&amp;quot; She replied (quite vehemently) that she can&amp;#039;t tell Dad \u2013 Stacie is his girlfriend and he&amp;#039;ll get mad if she doesn&amp;#039;t want him to see her. She&amp;#039;s also worried that Peter will think she doesn&amp;#039;t like Stacie and maybe he&amp;#039;ll break up with her if she says something. I tried to reassure her that he&amp;#039;d do no such thing, especially if she told him like she told me, that she likes them both but wants some weekends to be just the three of them. No dice. She&amp;#039;s too worried he&amp;#039;ll take it the wrong way. So now what do I do? I know Peter would want to know this, and as Anna&amp;#039;s parent, I want her happy. If she&amp;#039;d made a similar comment to him about me, I&amp;#039;d certainly want to know it. However, it&amp;#039;s not my place at all to tell him how he should be spending his weekends with them. He has a separate life now, and that needs to be respected. It&amp;#039;s also important that Anna learn to communicate her needs to her father on an ongoing basis. I suppose I&amp;#039;m relegated to the bleachers on this one, watching the game play out. I hate it, though. I swear, this is one of the hardest parts of this process. I feel like I&amp;#039;m not being allowed to parent in an area I was always allowed to parent in before. Worse, I know he&amp;#039;d want to know this. Readers, what would you do? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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