That's interesting. I have been separated for about 4 months now. I insisted on staying in the family home (afterall I wasn't the one who cheated) and my W is the one who moved out. We have a fairly structured visitation schedule in place. Part of that schedule is all of us having Sunday dinner together as a family, which means we are together here at the house for about 2 hours or so. There is no tension and it is generally a pleasant time. We looked at it as providing our girls some sense of family stability, but now I need to think about the fact that we may be sending them a false sense of hope.