I’m sad to report that Christine and I will not be getting married after all. Really sad. It would be imprudent to provide much detail here on the internet. But we were unable to see eye to eye on issues regarding parenting. We still love one another. And she genuinely loves my kids. We both brought our own contexts to the relationship. You start with assumptions in a relationship and you flesh it out, adding clay to the skeleton. In our case, we found the anatomy wouldn’t support the weight of the structure in the end.
It’s another loss for all of us. For my kids, for Chris, for me, even for her kids. In that sense, we’ll be grieving for a while. We’ve discussed trying to salvage the shards that remain after the structure crumbled, but when it’s not right for the kids, we just have to let it go.
This is another lesson for me in learning to let go. One of many over the last 3 and a half years. I’m getting it.
(photo courtesy of Northern Miniatures on Flickr)
