Hi Amy - Great email. good on you. Do not expect a response and therefore you will not be disappointed.
i also cannot advise on S7. i will tell you my kids are late teens, early 20s and our separation has impacted on them as if they were little. The advantage is that they are able to articulate how they feel.
In the beginning i buried my head and refused to be spoken to about any yukky stuff that muight upset me. My kids spoke many time in tears etc to my mother. Eventually my mother said ' enough , get your head out oif the sand and help your kids '. So i did and i had to go on anti depressants and sleeping tablets.
As the weeks past my kids came to me and asked that I no longer speak to them about how they are feeling, their dads actions etc. I was surprized. So now months down the track, they say very little about their father but they know I will listen if they do. So occasionally they have. I offer no explanation really for h behavior but i do offer them hope. hope that there dad will someday be the man he once was and that seems to appease them. i also tell them that soon this new family dynamic will seem normal and after time all things feel normal.
So with that in mind perhaps you could speak to your son about stuff but at the same time offer him hope that everything will be ok etc. Dad really is behaving a little different than he `used to but he loves them and things will all be ok.
