Voting Question: My children think that I favor one child over the other?

31/07/11

I love all my children with all my heart.I was married to my husband for 25 years.We had 4 children together.My oldest son was out of high school when my husband&I split,my oldest daughter was in her sr yr of high school,my youngest daughter was 12 yrs old&my youngest son was 8 yrs.We divorced bc he cheated on me for years & then left me & my kids. It was hardest on my 2youngest kids bc they still lived@home &missed their daddy.My oldest daughter moved out that yr & my oldest son was already living on his own so it didn’t take as big of a toll on them.My youngest daughter struggled w/o her father & she became anorexic@16. She weighed 80 lbs & wouldn’t eat a single thing:(She finally started getting better but sometimes she still goes through spells&she’s a very unhappy girl.She is 19 now & still struggles.My youngest son took it bad too. After all my ex husband was there for our 1st son but not him, & he is there for his newest son who he had with the other girl while he was cheating on me. His son is 6 now. Our youngest son is 17. He still needs his dad..He feels so hurt but would never show it to his father. His father was there for his brother but left him & is there for his half brother. Anyways, bc of all this my eldest son&daughter think I favor my youngest daughter bc she’s had a hard life & that I baby my youngest son because he’s the baby of the family & that I try to make up for his dad. & I’ll admit I do baby him sometimes, but is that so bad? I bought him a new golf bag (that he didn’t want me to buy bc he doesn’t want me to spend $ on him) & didn’t hear the end of it from my oldest kids who have families of their own. What they don’t understand is I did that stuff for them & still do. When they were in school of course I spent more $ on them than I do now that they have good jobs & a family. & I feel terrible that they think that I do more for my youngest kids than I do for them. I love them all, what should I do to show them that?

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