Well that still kind of doesn't answer what people are asking socially. They'll want to know if you're living separately, heading towards divorce, or living separately, in a long distance marriage or working towards reconciliation. Maybe you could answer "living separately, heading towards divorce")?
I'm sorry about how he neglects the kids. That's the one thing I really can't forgive my ex for.
It's been interesting for me to observe CMM with his kids. Three daughters in their twenties who barely speak to him. (He left their alcoholic mother after she falsely told the cops he had attempted to strangle her - when she was the one who was so abusive physically to him he had called the cops). He still refuses to get into it with them because he doesn't want to have to diss their mother. They feel like he was "the strong one" and should have been able to fix things. I think he has been avoiding calling them because the rejection is so painful. He's having to call them this weekend to discuss his cancer diagnosis.
