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I have always lived by this: You divorce your partner, never children. I could never imagine not calling my children's cousins, on their fathers side, my nieces/nephews. Their older brother will always be my first son. I am still close to one of his sisters, at times we are closer than my own blood sisters. We haven't been together in 12 years.
But flip the switch: the father who raised me for 23 years, left my mother and we never spoke again. I named my first born child after him and called him dad from my 16th year until he left when I was 24/25.
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* I do not believe that struggles are a sign of life falling apart, but rather a step of life falling into place. *
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