Telling the Kids about Divorce
I sat at the kitchen table, next to my husband, uncomfortable and nervous. I watched all three of my boys as they sat eating their lunch, wrapped in multicolored towels, still wet from their swimming lessons. I began to choke up before a single word left my mouth.
“Boys,” I began, not sure if I would remember all I had planned to say, even though I had my notes and a carefully chosen children’s book in front of me. They looked up at me, and I just said it, plain and simple, “Dad and I are getting divorced.”
The only people I had said that to beforehand were my parents and a few close friends. Somehow, saying it out loud to my children seemed to carry the weight of the world with it, and that just added to the already existing pressures of raising children with autism; pressures that sat squarely on my shoulders. To read more Subscribe »
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