Having your partner in the same home provides immediate babysitting and allows them time to bond with the children without you. Above all, be very careful about how you discuss adult matters with your children. Who says that once a couple divorces, the fighting stops?
It doesn’t – it just gets redirected through the children! After the divorce, the parents are separated geographically, so the children are constantly dislocated – shunted from one home to the other according to the ‘parenting plan’ – but the emotional dissonance, the fighting and the conflict travel the distance.
Inevitably, the separated family has to contend with greater financial hardship, increased career demands to meet those financial constraints, the grief of losing the emotional home and secure place that we all desire, and the…
