I always believed my husband loved me, even with all the tension with my MIL. We have three kids together, aged 7, 5, and 2, and I thought our family was solid. But one evening, out of nowhere, he told me, \u201cMy mom is dying, and I have to honor her last wish. I\u2019m divorcing you.\u201d I couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n
I was devastated, left with three kids at home, and back then, all I could think about was revenge, though I wasn\u2019t sure how. During that conversation, before he left, he begged me not to tell the kids the real reason for our divorce, but I went ahead and did it anyway. I wanted him to feel the way I feel now. Now they know, and they don\u2019t want to see their father at all.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m left with the consequences of my choice. If I hadn\u2019t told them, I would have been hiding the truth from my kids, but telling them has pushed them away from their father. I can\u2019t stop thinking about whether I did the right thing. Should I have protected them from the truth, even if it meant keeping a secret? Or was being honest worth the fallout, even if it risks their relationship with him forever? I still don\u2019t know what the right choice was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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