"We're Getting a Divorce"
I sat next to my husband at the kitchen table, looking at all three of my boys eating their lunch, wrapped in multicolored towels, still wet from their swimming lessons, and I began to choke up before a single word left my mouth. “Boys,” I began, not sure if I would remember all I planned to say, even though I had my notes and a book tightly in my grasp. When I had their attention, I just said it, plain and simple, “Dad and I are getting divorced.” My husband and I had only been separated about two weeks at the time. The word ‘divorce’ was almost as foreign to me as it was to my children. Having to tell any child about divorce is heart-wrenching, incredibly difficult and probably one of the only times in your life where each word you say truly matters. But, throw in special needs children, who see the world as black and white, without the grey area that divorce falls into, and who are often confused by language, relying heavily on semantics, and each word carries exponentially more...
