just to recap....I have always tried to stay in touch with the kids. We had, what I thought a very good conversation with them about their mother and I "still loving each other just not able to live with each other" when we told them about us getting a divorce, and that they could always contact me when ever they wanted. However, because I didn't have any biological or legal right it was up to them to initiate contact, and that they could always call email or text me when they needed or wanted but they had to discuss it with their mother first. Right or wrong, the angle I was always trying to underline here was having respect for your mother....
M 52 W 40 D 15 (step) S 12 (step) Married 7, together almost 8 Separated 1 year before bomb from her "I love you, I'm just..." BD final 8/22/12