I have two teens (son and daughter) that recently (this past December) began living more with their dad as they wanted to expore more time living with him. This was actually more of my teen daughter's idea as she did not like the way I was raising her. "Turn down the music...it's 11:00 at night", " Clean up your mess in the kitchen ", " Don't swear at me "...etc. Daughter is 16, son is 14.
I agreed to allow them to explore living with their dad who is a good dad...He just always spoiled them. I was married 23 yrs, peacefully divorced about 5 yrs. now and previously had 80% custody. I was the main parent...them mostly having ' playtime ' with the dad.
Anyway...now that their with him more, I've been finding it hard to put their things away as I miss them so much and having their stuff laying around brings an odd comfort to me.
Any suggestions as to how I can move past this emotional attachment to their left behind ' messes ' and feel fine about re-claiming my own space more?
2007-02-11
02:32:07
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