{"id":696,"date":"2006-10-10T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/second-marriage-on-shaky-ground.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:35:03","slug":"second-marriage-on-shaky-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/second-marriage-on-shaky-ground.htm","title":{"rendered":"Second Marriage On Shaky Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her husband&#8217;s grown daughter from a previous marriage has been sending pictures of his grandkids. She&#8217;s worried because he&#8217;s getting moody and talking about growing old. She&#8217;s concerned that he might be starting a midlife crisis.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em><strong>Here&#8217;s what I said:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does your husband have any other grandchildren or is this the first contact, therefore, the first time he has been called &#8220;grandpa?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It might not seem such a big deal to you, but there are many men who still believe they are only 25 until that &#8220;G&#8221; word is used and then they look in the mirror and see an old man looking back. This can be the very trigger to push him into full blown &#8220;midlife crisis&#8221; which he might be experiencing based upon what you have said.<\/p>\n<p>If it is the start of his midlife crisis, and more men than not go through it, you&#8217;re in for a bumpy time. Just make sure you have your head on straight and can deal with some off-the-wall stuff from him.<\/p>\n<p>Every man responds differently at this time, so there is no one answer that will help you other than don&#8217;t take what he does personally, and be as patient as you can with him and with yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her husband&#8217;s grown daughter from a previous marriage has been sending pictures of his grandkids. She&#8217;s worried because he&#8217;s getting moody and talking about growing old. She&#8217;s concerned that he might be starting a midlife crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}