Quote:That's all well and good, except they have a 10 year old son who lives with them and is a witness to what is going on. How can it be okay for a kid to know his parents are dating other people while still living together? 

I was, what, 7 when my parents divorced? It started out as amicably as any divorce could have back then, but the question of custody got very ugly. I can say with 100% certainty that I would much rather have had both of my parents sit me down and explain how uncoupling works to me than go through the year that the divorce took over again. I'm sure it would have caused some very weird looks at school if I had mentioned that my parents were still married but seeing other people, maybe even earned me a, "Don't talk about that," from a teacher, but it would have been much easier on me to see the marriage dissolve naturally than get torn to shreds.

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