Excuse me while I vomit all over you and your bullshit. People who come between people and their children (no matter what age the children are) are such pieces of shit. Wow, you're fucking the dad and are writing shit about the kid in an IA column. How old are you? Are you the same age as the kid? You certainly don't sound like an adult. "Your beautiful dad. Change is hard, kiddo." Please. People like you are shitty (and it's not just women, it is men, too). I think you confused this column with I, Asshole.

I am enjoying how this IA is rattling people's cages. Anyone who spends a significant portion of their time commenting on countless anonymous rants should probably be the ones in therapy; if you already are, maybe spend your next session investigating why your parents' divorce is still messing with you, because losing it over a boring rant isn't exactly indicative of having your shit together.

Next.

there's only one way you know who spends a significant portion of time commenting on IA...LOL.

@6 FTW!!!

@4: yes, by going to your profile.
Almost 700 comments from you, and counting; I can't imagine you stepping down from your bleak, online soapbox, since it's likely the last place remaining that feeds you any kind of attention. (I understand the irony, if not total hypocrisy in replying to you FYI.)
But hey! By all means....keep plugging away. What would this section be without you?!

Wait....it would be pretty all right, come to think of it.

Lol I'm not even the original poster, but sure... I'll take the credit, since the masses are creaming themselves over what snarky comment they are gonna throw out next.

It's way too easy, this business of trolling. Keep it coming!

This bitch has some nerve. As someone who has had, count them, 5 stepmothers I can see the red flags all over your face. You are entering an existing family. Try having some respect. If you cannot do so, then exit. Because no family deserves to be destroyed by some hateful, selfish, wanna be step monster

@12 Let's see, after re-reading the IA, I've discovered that the OP has a boyfriend, and the boyfriend has a kid. (This kid is in college, so they're actually of adult age, but whatever. A whiny kid is a whiny kid.)
Gee, call me crazy, but when you say "@ 8 Your boyfriend's kid is going to slap the ugly off of you someday", it sure sounds like you're assuming I'm the OP, dipshit. The person I'm seeing is a woman, and has no kids. So...yeah. Your factual statements are, well, not at all factual, but just a predictable back pedal.

Yeah, you're still an idiot.

No, this "I'm Not Mad, I'm Actually Laughing" commenter totally isn't the OP. I don't see how any of you jumped to that completely far-fetched conclusion. After all, it isn't as if they're completely thin-skinned, visibly insecure, and overly defensive when it comes to the OP's position. It isn't as if "just get over divorce already" is something that someone with no empathy or self awareness would say when they're trying to fuck someone's dad and aren't getting exactly what they want at all times. It isn't as if she reveled in this post "rattling people's cages," but has now spent three responses indicating how totally unrattled they are. Nope, there's no way this is the same whorish, self-absorbed monster. Clearly mistakes have been made.

Wow! Ease up already. You four people who comment on every post always, ALWAYS, take a snarky, mean and hurtful tone with your comments. Unless you are supporting the SJW agenda them you Don't. Only Dougfer, he or she or they, exhibits reason and kindness sometimes. You all assume the girlfriend is a mean person who brings no joy or love or kindness into the father's life. Sounds like he did his job, raised his child, paying for college (more than my parents did for any of their 7 kids 18 you were expected to make it on your own, Co-signing on student loans yes, paying them for you no) anyway the collage age adult son had no business being disrespectful to his father bcause his father, a legally divorced and single, and probably 42 years and older has met and fallen in love with a beautiful person who cares about him. Finding love later in life is not as easy when you are in your 20s and 30s, The son really should try and be an adult now, not a whiny entitled millennial, and accept his father who he is. One other thing please take a moment and Think about this question, you four horseriders of negative comments, what would you have said if the writer had been the father's male gay lover and the son said dad should get therapy because he was dating someone? Be real now and don't be hypocrites answer honestly. Live is the greatest thing in the world! As Dan Savage says, love is love, one of the greatest things in the world everyone should be free to love whomever they wish without persecution!

I know nothing about divorce or step family dynamics, but I do know at least two commenters have called OP a whore. That is some misogynist bullshit.