If your child is caught up in a loyalty conflict, however, she may express no ambivalence about your ex, demonstrating an extreme, idealized support for him. She may behave as though she never has mixed feelings toward or negative reactions to him. Your ex may be made to seem all good, while you are all bad. As one alienated teen eerily proclaimed, “I love my father to death!” Such hero worship combined with baseless contempt for the other parent is unhealthy and unrealistic.
