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Apr 16, 2011, 02:28 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,543
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Hi ~ It seems a little drastic that he wants a break after only one bad weekend, but I guess there isn't much you can do. I have to think tho that if you've been together that long, he'll miss you and realize that this "break" wasn't such a good idea afterall. 
I would think that sitting the kids down and talking to them together would be the same whether it was a divorce situation or boyfriend/girlfriend. It's all the same ~ you were all living together or close to it. You were with each other ALOT. It would just be a matter of telling them that they wouldn't be seeing each other for awhile ~ or perhaps not as often.
I understand your feelings of abandonment. It WOULD be scary. But you might as well find out now, rather than later when you've invested even more years in the relationship. It would be a shame for this to end -- but better now than when the kids are 12 or 14 -- when THEY have lived their whole life with one another and developed a huge attachment to each other. Now they're resilient ~ later on they won't be so much. Best of luck ~ and I hope things work out for you the way you want them to. God bless. Hugs, Lee
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