muddled and angry: Puddle's third thread

[Nomopo]

Unlike some others here, I don't think that you should tell them that you and H don't love each other anymore

And that wouldn't be true. We do, but it's not enough for H. We'll have to qualify that one, if we mention it at all.

they may start to think that your love for them could end, even if you word it in a way that tells them that mommys and daddys love each other differently than parents and kids do. I think that's too complicated for little kids.

Just to clarify, we told the kids at the Big Talk, and numerous times since then, that mommy and daddy love and care about one another and always will, but that we don't love each other like a Husband & Wife should. We also stressed that we loved them, always would, and that the love between mommies and daddies is different that between H&W. At times, it's also ok to say these are adult problems, adult issues that they don't need to worry about. Mommy and daddy wil handle it.

Nomo