Thanks, I am trying to gather up the emotional, sentimental stuff over the next few days, and I was thinking along the same lines, moving it to my office for the short-term.
Any ideas on what I should be saying to the kids? Our daughter turns 17 this week, and our son will be 19 in November, so we're not dealing with little ones here. I talked to S18 briefly in the car while driving him back to college, started with saying that Dad and I were seeing a MC.
Why, is everything OK?
We're talking. Have you noticed any issues between me and Dad?
Not really
Oh, ok... well, I wanted to make sure that our problems weren't contributing to you being upset this weekend.
Nope, I had no idea.
And it ended there. I didn't know what else to do with it.
I want to give D16 a heads-up also- somehow, I don't think she is being any more perceptive than our son was. She was asking this weekend about rearranging the basement to suit her needs more now that S18 is mostly gone. Either H and I hide our problems well, or the kids are in their own little teen-age universes, not paying attention to much outside their social circles. It's probably some of both.
