Parents: help me parenting while separated (2)

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Had another fantastic weekend with the kids.
Saturday the three of us went to another country to spend the night.
When we leave for a car trip I always say: "Enjoy the trip, Ripe Family".
S7 immediately replied: "The family is not incomplete".
Some moments later he said: "Mom promised she would never leave you". S9 said: "Mom is a liar."
I remember the day we told the kids about our separation. S7 mentioned the same promise and STBXW replied "I never said so."
I have been thinking about this ever since.
It is only half true.
She never told the kids so.
But she told me that at the altar.
And that vow is a sine qua non condition for the couple's safety, even spiritual, in order to have kids. No couple would have kids if the spouses knew their marriage was a short-living one. At least I would not.
Moving on.
We watched a new Disney movie called The Good Dinossaur. It's a movie about family and friendship.
At some point the two main characters are trying to communicate that they have lost some members of their family. They stick on the ground one stick for each member they have. And then they draw on the ground one circle surrounding the sticks.
I thought to myself: "Yes, that's a good representation of a family. No one should ever be able to break that circle, at least on purpose."
Anyway, I feel that the kids and I are closer than ever and that our circle will never be broken.