One bad joke, and now my kid hates the man I’m marrying. Hax readers give advice.

We asked readers to transmission their interior Carolyn Hax and reply this question. Some of the champion responses are below.

Dear Carolyn: A twelvemonth ago, I met my soulmate. We are some divorced and person children. Everyone was getting on great, and we fell successful emotion and made plans to marry, bargain a location and merge households. I was pinching myself I was truthful happy!