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I’ve got a situation that has been bothering my a bit lately. My mother-in-law has been seeing this new guy for a few months and they are starting to get pretty serious. He’s very nice and they get along great, so everything is good there. The issue that is with his 13 year old daughter; she is a bit of a follower and likes attention. We’ve talked a good bit about her new mp3 player and computers, since I’m a computer nerd. She’s a nice girl and so far everything has been innocent, but I still get a bit uncomfortable around her. It was just a bunch of little things like, she seemed to lean a little too close while I was helping her install software on her computer, that made me start thinking about it later.


I could be completely wrong, in which case I would like to stay friendly with her, but my question is how and when to deal with it moving too far. I’m not sure what her intentions are and at what point I should say something. I live in the same town as my mother-in-law and she is very close with my wife, so I can’t avoid the whole thing. I don’t want to say anything if I’m really wrong, as that could make family gatherings very uncomfortable. I haven’t said anything to my wife, but I was thinking of asking her to pay a little more attention the next time we’re all together to see what she thinks. What do you all think?

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