January 11 2024- The author reflects on the end of their 17-year relationship with their husband, describing the moment of decision as unremarkable, occurring on an average Tuesday afternoon at 3 pm. After two years of relationship counseling, discussions, tears, and fights, the couple realized it was time to part ways for the sake of their children, aged five and nine. The decision wasn’t made lightly, but rather like a song gently fading out. The author highlights the absence of anger or intense pain at that point, having experienced those emotions earlier in the process. Instead, the separation was characterized by a sense of exhausted defeat, accompanied by respect and love for the family they had built together.
The day we told our children we were getting a divorce.
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