Mules -- would you care to give us a brief synopsis of what happened w/ your middle son? Seven years to fully recover from the trauma of a divorce seems ... scary.
Hey FG - My middle son who was 10/11 at the time caught my XW with OM. He never told me until after it all went down and felt extreme guilt over it. No kid should have to carry that. There was a lot more involved. This is the EXTREME short version. My XW checked out as a mom before she checked out as a W. Pretty scary stuff. It really effected my one son.
We had a theme that me and my boys used and stuck to that my dad once told me: "Tough times don't last, tough people do."
My middle son at his senior exhibition had to give a presentation and wrote that quote on the board. It's something we all live by. Back in the day, a lot of my friends here picked it up and ran with it.
Strength and Honor was also something incredibly important to me. Can't tell you how many times those three words got me through some incredibly difficult situations.
Mules
M 43 W 44 M 17 T 22 S16,12,9 Bomb 2/05/08 I served her 1/06/09 S'd 3/15/09 D'd 12/21/09
"Tough times don't last, tough people do." --My Dad to me years ago, me to my boys now.
