“Going it alone,” is hard, no matter where you are in your marriage.
The girl’s father may be “involved,” but there is nothing like “hands-on” to make a kid feel “necessary.”
Anything you can do to “adopt” that girl will go miles and miles towards making her feel she is worth “something.” And you can tell her (and Anoreth,) that I said so!
We’re doing all we can. We paid for both the teen girls to go on a ski trip with the Girl Scouts last year, and we’ve taken them and our two oldest to the movies and bowling. I’d even give them Wednesday, if it would help :-).