Don't Rush It...
I see it all the time on social media and even among parents I know. Soon after the separation, the single parent finds someone new and rushes into a new life with this person by their side. I don’t mean dating. Dating can and should be kept separate from your kids until you’re ready for the next transition. What I am referring to is moving this new love straight into your messy life and expecting to ride off into the sunset. Playing house, forcing your children (probably still healing the wounds from the divorce) to play house, and all for the fear of being alone again. Oh, if only it were so easy. These parents are merely patching the hole their former spouse left behind with someone else, baggage from both sides is usually included. No matter how hard they try the fractures lines still exist. The very thing that created the hole in the first place is likely still present and will eventually crack under the...