I've gotten the same remark from my stbx:

"We will always be a family. Just a different sort of family."

It doesn't work for me either.

And how does it fit with another comment like:
"It's just too painful for me to be around you and the kids".

We are a different sort of family all right, one that is never able to be together. One that is 'family' in the abstract, only. (Anger popping through here!)

Try not to feel down.... this is stuff they all say. It can change.



Seems to be part of the script.