Sucky situation for all parties.
Kids are pretty resilient, and not all that naive. They can probably tell how you are feeling, and can see that there are problems in your relationship. If you do decide to seperate or divorce, they will accept it, and bounce back from it, and probably will be happier in the long run because both parents will be happy. Staying together for the sake of the kids is no reason to stay together.
You have to do what's important to you, if you marriage isn't working for you,then there's no good reason to stay in it. I'm not saying throw it away at the first sign of trouble, but if you can honestly tell yourself that you've tried, and can't make it work -- well - -then that's your answer.
25 years is a long time, at one point, people thought if you could spend that amount of time with a person, then you were in it for life. Lately, I'm seeing the opposite as true... people change in that amount of time, and grow apart, you want different things... You have to do what's right for you...
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