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Advice on telling an 8 year old boy who adores his dad that we are splitting up

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LadyDowagerHatt · 23/08/2019 07:14

I have another thread on here about the marriage break up side but this is the bit I know I need to get right so if anyone has any advice or experience please share.

He adores his dad and we were happy until he cheated so it’s not a case of it being a better home environment for him etc.

My counsellor said to say to him that we have decided we work better as friends, still love him, still care deeply for eachother but we won’t be living together anymore.

The children will stay with me, it’s early days so STBXDH is just at his mum’s for now so we can’t answer any questions about where he will live, how much DS will see him etc, that is all to be arranged but I’m determined that it will be fair and amicable.

We do also have a DD but she has significant learning disabilities so it’s not a conversation we can have with her.

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ccgirr · 23/08/2019 07:45

Make it your mission to make it work. However much I don’t want him my dh is a fab dad and he has ds as much as he can and the time he does have is way more special than the time I do when most is school and normal routine. It can work. We have made sure it doesn’t really affect the kids.

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