Bringing up your children whether as a resident or non resident parent should still be an important part of your life after divorce. Parenting after divorce is often complex, frustrating and confusing.
Having secrets between you and your partner sounds like a not very good thing to do. Divorce and the challenges of life after divorce might not be far away. But no, it could be just the thing to do.
You get married, big wedding, lots of friends and family and the two of you are floating on a sea of champagne, good intentions, everlasting love and boundless hope for the future.
This most famous phrase from the Declaration of Independence which established the United States in 1776 still shines as a beacon of hope down the years. Life, yes everyone deserves to live. Liberty (now referred to as freedom) of course yes but remember one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist.
Perhaps the biggest casualty of a divorce is the loss of what can be called "the illusion." It's the illusion that "that divorce (like cancer) happens to other people but not to us."
The road to divorce can often take us through strange lands and to unfamiliar places. One of those is the rather dark world of Married/in a Relationship Dating.