Remember, children are resilient. They will survive. They will have a normal life.
Steve...thanks for the input...and despite my harboring feelings for her I will indeed be glad when she's out of my life (or out of my life more...as in I drop D3 off at daycare and she picke her up...so we dont have to see one another. I will still always have to deal with her on some level b/c of D3).
However...with the statement you made that I quoted above, I have to ask if you have kids?
If you do...and they bounced back...then thats great but they're likely in the minority. As I understand it, most studies show that kids whose parents split up and never reconcile suffer lifelong consequences from very mild to quite severe. They range from behavioral, educational, mental, physical, and even sexual & relationship disorders.
Stuff like that really makes me angry towards my ex, because she did all this to satisfy her own selfish needs and didnt give a thought to who it would affect. She's in denial that anybody should be affected at all. Like you, she thinks D3 will bounce back and be fine when I highly doubt it.
People have suggested that I get D3 into counseling, which I'm planning on doing. But stop and think for a minute...what the hell is wrong with the picture when a man and his daughter have to each go into counseling because his ex-fiancee/ daughters mother decided to destroy her family so she could get it on with an old man?
