Keep Your Hands Offa My Mojo

[antlers]

There's no magic potion, no magic bullet, no set of words or promises or photographs or weeping kids or well-intentioned behaviors/declarations/stipulations/demonstrations that is touching enough, persuasive enough, impressive enough, or enough enough to make Walkaway stay. They're gone, Jack.

But above all I do know that I'll manage. I'll keep leading my children the best way I know how. I'll keep doing my job.

Well, what the hell. In for a penny, in for a pound. I made the best choices I could at the times I made them given the information I had at my disposal, my needs, and the awareness I had of those needs and of that information.

I read it all Smiley...thanks. These things above stuck out, in particular, for me.

Nothing can stop them. Once they get to a certain point, regardless of what they say or do, and regardless of what we say or do...they are gone.

Yep, we'll all manage. It'll just take some time and effort. Being the best parents we can be will only do us good, not to mention the good that it will do for our kiddos.

Me too. I know in my heart, after she left, that I did everything in my power to treat her with compassion, apologize and make amends, stop the divorce, improve myself, and try to keep our family from being torn apart.