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When protecting your children's relationship with their father means absorbing blame

My kids blame me for their dad having to move to a studio apartment and I don't know how to explain that he spent our college fund on his gambling addiction.

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The desire to shield children from painful truths can require accepting undeserved guilt and isolation.

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