The Other Woman

My husband’s youngest daughter is caught in perpetual conflict over her parents’ divorce. She doesn’t point her anger toward me in the least. On the contrary, she and I have a very pleasant relationship and I am fond of her. However, what my husband has experienced is a cyclic trend where she will grow very despondent and upset. The other night, on her birthday, the evening ended in tears and accusations of abandonment. She desperately wished to go home to her mother. But no more than 2 weeks later, she grew sad and tearful when she was brought back home after spending a weekend with him. She said she didn’t want to go home but wanted to stay with him. She cried all night long, calling her father, while her mother and sister were unable to console her. She is 12 years old now and her parents have been separated/divorced since she was 8. What can we do to help her overcome her distress?

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