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When protecting your children backfires

I divorced my husband two years ago for the kids' sake, but they blame me for breaking up the family and I'm starting to think I made the wrong choice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes the choices we make to shield our children from harm create different kinds of pain we didn't anticipate.

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