My mother passed three years ago Aug 1. My father has become engage to a woman that myself and sister have tried very hard to welcome and like. She has come in and tries to erase memories of our mother by taking family photos down completely and we have tried to discuss with our father and he just gets angry with us. It seems we can no longer talk to him about anything and I know he still loves and cares about us, but it feels as though he wants nothing to do with us by his actions? Our parents were happily married for 35 years and our mothers passing was very difficult on him and the grief was overwhelming. We have always been a very close family and able to talk about anything, more sister and I are devastated that this is happening and feel we have lost our father before actually losing him. We have tried many times to make an effort with this woman who is a functioning alcoholic by the way, because he says she makes him happy. Can anyone explain if this is normal? He accepts things, behaviors of this woman he would never accept of us, totally opposite of how he raised us so we are so confused and recasted.