How Much Should You Tell Your Child?
The other day, my friend called me up in the middle of the night sobbing into her cellphone. She lives close by so I woke my husband up and told him that I’ll be heading for my friend’s house for a bit to comfort her. When I got there, I found out that she just had a big fight with her husband and he walked out on her. It seems that they’ve been fighting a lot lately and for quite some time she has thought about breaking up and getting a divorce. The worse part is that her children are slowly catching wind of where they are heading. Her little daughter asked her if they were going to get a divorce soon while she was helping her get the Olivia pink pillow that she wants.
This puts my friend in a dilemma on whether to tell her children about the fact that she does think about divorce a lot now especially since they are fighting and disagreeing more and more. She’s not sure whether she should open up about it to her children or simply drop the bomb, so to speak, when it actually happens. There are parents that often feel that their child deserves to know almost everything that’s happening in their marriage and they feel that the children should be one of the first people to know if they decide to get a divorce or if they are heading that way. Personally, I think that it’s also ideal to let children know what you are feeling and thinking. Of course, there’s a line to what you can tell and how you actually break it to them.
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