What can “the children’s best interest” mean?

It means you care about your children. Even in the midst of the deepest challenges divorce brings, you want what is best for them.

When your children one day look back on their lives, what do you want them to see about their parents who brought them into the world? How do you want them to remember you as a couple? How do you want them to recall their earliest years?

For most parents who divorce, there are more years ahead in co-parenting than there were years married. What is there in our society to forge this new family life, to send them on their way with blessings, well wishes, even gifts? (They may need two of everything living in two homes). There is no formal ceremony in our society to mark the end of a marriage, beyond a judge’s stamp of date of the final judgment.

You want to move on yourself, have a chance at a new relationship someday. Something holds you back. Or maybe, relationships since the divorce have not worked well.

It may be time to revisit the past in a new way to forge a new perspective. It’s time to take a new look at love for your sake, and the sake of your family legacy.