If you aren’t a single parent, you don’t know what it’s like to watch your children drive away with your ex, and have no control over what they’re exposed to or how they’re treated to for hours, days, weeks (depending on your situation) at a time. You don’t know what it’s like to have to communicate through a third party – therapists, mediators, lawyers. You don’t know what it’s like to hold your children as they cry for their other parent, or as they ask you, again in different ways as they age, why you got a divorce.
Listen, folks, no one’s house looks like the photos in the magazines, and I hate to break it to you, but damn near everything on social media is staged to some extent.
Empowering your children to be autonomous can provide them with the confidence that they can direct the course of their life through their own efforts.
