Spring/Summer 2006
We'll start at the beginning of my relationship with Husband; these are things I saw/heard/read first-hand so there's no bias. I know these things to be fact, not just something I'm repeating. Husband told me upfront he was divorced and had two kids. I was leery of this because my sister had dated someone with a child; it ended badly, my sister was heartbroken over losing someone who she had come to consider her own child. I didn't want to get into a mess like that but fortunately, I did. When we first started dating, I was not going to get involved in their dissolved marriage. I knew how divorce worked - everything was always the other person's fault and never your own, "If only they would've..." I knew he wasn't a perfect person and had probably made just as many mistakes as she had which contributed to their divorce. I was not going to take "his side" just because we were dating. I met the kids maybe one week into ...