Should You Invite Your Ex To Family Gatherings?

Whether you're celebrating birthdays, holidays or weddings, the question always arises, "Who do we invite?" Today the word "family" can include a lot of non traditional people. Is your ex who has ties to your children still in the family? Is your longtime girlfriend or boyfriend in the family? Are your spouses relatives close enough to you to be invited to your home and considered family? And what about all the people who became close friends once a couple is joined by marriage - when the marriage ends, are those people whom you really liked but are no longer legally related to you still family? Today we'll look at family gatherings and how to strengthen the ties of kinship - even if some of the ties have been broken