Parenting Is a Lifelong Business Partnership With Raising Healthy Children

Parents need to realise that although the relationship has ended, they remain in a lifelong business partnership with raising healthy children. Both parents need to model healthy lifestyle choices and communication styles. And both parents need to recognise that professional health may be needed. The other things parents need to do is realise that we need to grieve. Even though one parent may have been out of the relationship in terms of having an affair or moving on in some ways, still the ending is really painful because the grief is the dream of what you thought you were going to have. We need to show our kids that although we've lost a lot, the families lost a much, we can move forward.