"Your Dad's Girlfriend,"? How can this psychologically affect a young child? (As far as I know today, he didn't have a girlfriend, and my mom just said this to mess with my mind)
2006-10-08 08:16:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If she did it because your father had an affair or affairs, then she was getting her child involved with an adult conflict, and that can be harmful to a child.
If your father never had any girlfriend, then she has a strange sense of humor I guess. Maybe it was her mother-in-law on the phone.
If this only happened once, I doubt it would have much impact on a child. If it was a part of an ongoing pattern of behavior of one parent trying to turn a child against the other parent for some reason, then yes, that would have a damaging effect.
But in the end what really matters is not what was said or done to you, but how you reacted to it. Rather than agonizing over some injury you might have received as a child, you should evaluate how you reacted to it at the time, and how you should react to it now. That's the way to reclaim power over your life.
2006-10-08 08:38:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe that's what she calls girls who are friends. I call my friends "girl friends". That alone can't really psychologically affect a young child, unless for some reason it was extremely traumatizing .... which it wouldn't be for a young child since they are unable to fully understand the complications, implications, and everything else that's involved with something like that.
2006-10-08 18:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
she could have just been joking are they still married or did he leave to be with a girlfriend
2006-10-08 15:36:39 · answer #3 · answered by autumnbrookblue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe she was tell you the Truth, do you want you mom to lie to you
2006-10-08 15:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by justmejimw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋