My name is Tom. I'm 42 years old, divorced, with a 17-year-old daughter, Amanda, or Mandy. Two years ago, my now ex-wife had an affair with a co-worker, that became more than just an affair. She told me she was in love with him and wanted a divorce. They were going to move out of state and just start over. Mandy, who was 15 at the time, said there was no way she was going to move to another state and try to make new frien...

Kim was just two years old when I married her mother, so I have been the only real Daddy she has ever had. Her real father has had no role in her life at all. When my wife died suddenly last Spring, it left 17-year-old Kim and me both devastated, but as the months passed, we began to pick up the pieces and move on with our lives together. Kim's grades took a bit of a dip after her mom's death, but I was confident she woul...