I've posted in the divorce/separation Topic, (www.mumsnet.com/Talk/divorce_separation/2441681-Is-This-What-Divorce-Separation-Feels-Like) but here's a similar one with a slightly different emphasis.
We're both fairly socially conservative people, but - as I mention in the other thread- my wife just no longer seems to want me, and I'm at a point where I'm finally fed up with it so much that it seems like it might be the time to put us out of our misery.
I'm a decent, honest, educated, civilised, roll-sleeves-up-and-get-stuck-in type of fella, and she's become so insular and paranoid that everything's my fault. All the time.
Things have happened that mean I can no longer trust her judgement.
Well, (and before you say it!) perhaps she made the wrong judgement all those years ago; I took her away from a very nice working class background to all over the world and all sorts of people and new and exciting things for both of us and I thought we'd grown together to be adults who could share life in its prime with our wonderful children, but sadly it's not turned out like that.
So my question is, does divorce always fuck up the kids?
They're healthy and happy and confident now.
The last thing I'd ever want to do was to damage them. They're my only priority in all of this.
We've all read posts where people have said that they were delighted their parents split up because they would have lived in an unhappy marriage otherwise.
But is that just so much self-valedictory clap-trap?
Dunno...any thoughts/ideas/experience?
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Is it time for a separation/divorce? And does that always f+@ck up the children?
JandLandG · 05/08/2015 00:42
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