My children have had to deal with so much loss and change in their lives in the past several years, but especially in the last year between us moving out of the home we lived in while I was married to their father, and then moving upstate and now with their father planning a HUGE move that will impact them even further, I just don't know how they are going to handle it.
Children are resilient. I hear it all the time, but the human spirit is a fragile thing and I worry about them and how they will handle yet another huge loss in their lives. My heart hurts for them and I just want to wrap them up in my arms and tell them everything will be ok and they won't ever get hurt again. But I can't do that. That's not realistic. They will feel pain. We all do. I just want them to know they have one constant in their lives - me. I love them with all my heart and would do anything for them. I am their rock and I have NO intentions of leaving them - ever. I can't even bear the thought of not being around them. Even when they are driving me nuts and calling my name 150x an hour, I wouldn't know what to do without hearing that for more than a day or two. I love them all so much and all so differently, yet the same. This is their father's choice and it is going to have a very pronounced impact on them. Perhaps not as much right now for the boys, but in the years to come, they will come to question his motives for leaving, and I hope he's ready to answer them truthfully and be prepared for their responses.
Children are resilient... as long as they have a solid but soft place to land, they are. I will be that soft landing, that solid place that will never leave them. God bless my children and watch over them, as you always have.
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