Yea, over time the marriage stress started to get to me along with some other life stresses. I would get impatient with my daughter. And on three ocassions I yelled at her. I could tell you when, where we were standing and what we were wearing that's how much they are imbeded in my head. NO 6-8 year old deserves to be yelled at especially my daughter by me.
Once wife and I seperated a lot of stress dissapeared. One of the things i did was to sit down with daughter and talk about those instances. I appologized and made her a promise that I would never yell at her again if she would promise me that she wold listen to me if I say a key phrase.
she brings it up often and I haven't lost my temper with her since the seperation.
I have told my wife once or twice that the divorce helped open my eyes to a lot of things. Other than being divorced when I won't want to be it really has improved every other aspect of my life..... and still working on it LOL!
