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The biggest test when remarrying is how your fiancee will fit into your family. What happens when your children are unwilling to accept your new love?”

It is not always a matter of if the child likes or dislikes the new partner. Often it is the feelings that come along with this change that the children respond to,” said Emily Ryan Smith, a social worker in Mobile, Ala.”Children will have different emotional responses to family change based on the child’s age, developmental stage and the presence of other life changes,” she said.

“Children often feel anxiety due to the uncertainty of the future. They may ask themselves, ‘Where will we live? Will I have to share my room? Will I have to call him Dad? Where do I fit into this family?'”

via Parenting: Advice to consider when your kids don’t like the new love in your life – KansasCity.com.