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When children ask if divorced parents will reunite

Our daughter asked if daddy and I will ever live together again and I realized I don't know how to answer that question honestly without destroying her hope.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children's hope for restoration forces parents to balance honesty with compassion while managing their own ambivalence about finality.

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