Your children may view your dates as competition for your love and attention, and as a rejection of their now-absent parent.Their fantasies of reconciliation will be damaged, and the loss of your attention can reawaken fears of abandonment.If you’ve been waiting until we left home to do this, don’t be surprised by our angry and hurt.

If we didn’t see this coming, we’ll ask ourselves if there was ever really love or was it all a lie?After all, who wants to be responsible for their parents being miserable?We’ll need time to take it all in so please don’t expect us to just pick up and move on. It helped shape our ideas about marriage, relationships and family.It’s hard to definitively say why this is, but the general belief is that mom is often considered the primary caretaker and is thus expected to maintain the status quo.Socializing with your kids included is a good way to approach the social scene.