Comments on: Telling The Kids About The Divorce

By: Karin

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:38:44 +0000

Dear Eva, I cried reading your story, because I neither heard words like that when my parents split up, nor me and my exhusband were able to handle our divorce mature and respectfully like you guys did. I feel happy for you and your family and all the other couples on this planet who manage to react and deal with divorce in a similar way. Thank you for sharing this very private issue with the world. And ALL THE BEST!

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By: Caitlin Dunbar

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:40:31 +0000

Wow!… is all I can say. In the least patronising way possible, I’m so proud of you both. You just seem to be handling this in the best way you possibly could. I’ve no doubt that Marlowe and Major will love, appreciate and ultimately benefit from how you’re tackling this change in their lives. Plus – I feel like going to NYC for Dad weekends is going to seem like the best thing ever one day, as well as knowing Mummy is at home waiting with open arms. Sending so much love from Scotland, UK xxxx

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By: Kim.

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:07:36 +0000

Eva- curious how you two decided which parent is staying in the home. Thanks!

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By: Debbie

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:20:42 +0000

I commend you and your husband on how you handled telling your children. Though it still breaks my heart to see you separating, you seem like such a beautiful little family, only the two of you know why this is best and I wish you both the best as your lives, though forever connected, will take you on separate roads. I have been married to my husband for 24 years. I am a stepmother and grandmother and our blended family is quite extraordinary. I love my husband’s ex-wife, (I call her my wife-in-law) and I love her husband. We all get along beautifully. We spend every Xmas at her house with our grandkids and extended family. It can work if you remember your children and their feelings and remember that their tender little psyches need a lot of love with this new change. When there is more love, there is MORE LOVE. I sincerely wish you and your family all the best.

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By: Jenna Davis

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:35:13 +0000

Thank you for sharing this raw moment for your family. As someone going through divorce with a 4 & 2 year old, I know how incredibly difficult it is. I hope that their father and I can also cultivate a healthy co-parenting relationship through the years. I love seeing you and Kyle working together, it is inspiring. The hard questions don’t stop coming from the kids and most of the time I can’t hold it together but they are so resilient!

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By: Deb

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:54:53 +0000

You are an inspiration to all parents and children. The love for and protection of your kids comes through loud and clear. I can’t imagine how kids their ages understand the reality of your joint decision. I’m crying just reading this. Thank you for posting for others to understand how to move forward in love.

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By: NY Mom

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:08:28 +0000

A single mom is a mother who parents ALONE with no partner or spouse. A single mother is NOT someone who has an ex-partner/spouse to share responsibilities, expenses, etc. You will get time to yourself when you ex has the kids. I get NO time to myself because I am truly a single mom. And trust me, I’m not the only real single mom that this bothers – we all go crazy when a woman – particularly one of means – gets divorced and declares herself a single mom. Try being the only provider, the only caregiver, the only decision maker, the only one that manages a family.

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By: Kayla B

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:41:47 +0000

Reading this was hard for me since divorce is not a happy scenario but it was especially hard since I experienced divorce as a child when my parents split up. It was excruciatingly messy and difficult and the only way through it was divorce but man, if my parents could have kept all the messy bits quiet and presented divorce to us like this, I don’t think I’d be as bent up about it even now. I’m in a much better place with my parents than I was 10 and 12 years ago but boy was that a rough transition! God bless and I hope everything is going well with your new family dynamic and your pregnancy!!

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By: Kathryn

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:06:19 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing. I thought I had missed something in between your decision to have a third baby and the announcement that you’re getting divorced, but I don’t think I did. Obviously this isn’t something you want to blog about now, but I’m sure that so many of your readers will be able to relate to your story or at least learn a lot about relationships from hearing about your experience and how long you were contemplating divorce (e.g., your husband mentioned imagining eating dinner together ten years from now and wishing you had a third child not too long ago). Best wishes through this journey.

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By: Cathy

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:14:20 +0000

In reply to Mary G.

I could not agree with you more Mary G!!

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