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How divorced parents address the past when children want answers

My ex-wife and I have been co-parenting for three years but we've never talked about why our marriage actually ended—we just focused on logistics—and our kids are starting to ask harder questions that we can't answer without getting into that territory.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Avoiding painful history becomes impossible when that history shapes the questions of people you both love.

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“Where Are You with Regret and the past?”

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