How to Leave Your Wife Without Leaving Your Children

How to end the relationship but keep the kids: advice from Limpet Girl. ______

 This is for the weary; the frustrated. This is for the battle-broken fathers. This is for the lost parents. This is for the separating men (and women) who just want to walk away. For those who are finding it too hard, who think, in a moment of despair, that they just want to give up. This is for you. Your relationship has ended. Right now it probably feels like the apocalypse has arrived. Your world has come crashing down and the fallout spreads far and wide. Maybe you’ve already walked out. Or you might still be living in the family home and the tension is high. You might not be able to co-exist in the same space without it ending in a fight. You might despise this woman (or man – change gender as applicable) you once loved. But please, before you pack your bags and leave, before you close the door on the past, take this one golden rule to live by as you go your separate ways. Your children need you. That’s all you need to remember. Your children need you. Your children need you to be present in their lives. You don’t have to live in the same house, you don’t even have to live in the same town. But you do need to be a present and continuing factor.