@loriwheeler: It’s more than ok to “break up the family”. Don’t allow your abandonment issues prevent you from taking your own path and making your own decisions. You are under no obligation to continue traditions and expectations. Break the cycle, someone has to so let it be you. #family #boundaries #manipulation #guilttrip
I am grieving that I’m “breaking up my family”. 😢 I never ever wanted to get divorced and assumed my husband and I would be married “until death”. I wanted my kids to have that too, their parents married forever. But, I decided that what they were witnessing as “marriage” is not what I want them to witness a marriage should be. It’s heart-breaking, especially because my in-laws and Dad (my mom has passed) are so disappointed and “what about the kids?”, and all the things... Plus they’re Catholic, etc. it’s getting easier and easier….. I know in my heart this is “right”