Leaving DH over his drinking - what to tell the DC?

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They are too young to understand about the drinking.

So what will I tell them?

How old are they?

You could just say that daddy and mummy will be happier apart. That both mummy and daddy still love them. Make plans for fun things to do together, just you and the kids.

How old are they OP?

Perhaps tell them he is ill & not go into the details of it.

5 and 2.

Daddy is ill
Have a look at the Al Anon website

If you say he's ill, might there be a danger that they'll be worried the op will leave them if they're ill?

My best friend's parents divorced when she was 5, and she said her mum just told her that everything was ok and that daddy was moving out now.

She said at the time she just accepted it and assumed that it was the norm, that daddies moved out when you were 5, and it wasn't a big deal - like starting school or any other rite of passage.*

If you can keep the way you tell them positive at that young age it might not be so bad at all. Good luck!

*In reality he was having an affair and there was lots of trauma, but my friend was totally oblivious to all this!