DizzyDi: we have all made those mistakes I stayed a lot longer than I should have done, thinking it was the right thing to do
Hello lovely...
People do don't they? Think that they have to sacrifice their life for their children.
You know, I often get people ask me, why I do not live with my children, given that they are at college in the UK, they seem to think that I am a bad mother, because I wanted to move here, but they are not just my children, they are their father's too and he has 50% of the responsibility to them that I do.
They both deserve a right to a healthy balanced relationship with both parents and that is what they get.
But I am not going to sit at home, just because I have to with my children so that I can conform to what soceity expects of me, sod that, I ahve a great relationship with my children and that will always remain, but I deserve a life too and I have one...
They are my priority, but I would be failing as a person if I was to be a martyr to them, and in turn I would end up miserable and resentful.
I was a very unhappy bunny in my marriage, as was he, so the best for the children was to end that unhappiness as it was making them unhappy, they did not deserve that. And neither did he.