Sharing My Jennarocity

I love my daughter so much. I love her more than I could ever even fathom. Avery and I have been going to counseling for several months to get through things. Thank goodness for Children First Counseling Center in Grand Prairie, who have provided the most amazing counselor for Avery during this time. We've been working on feelings and how it's OK to have feelings. It's OK to express them. She's helped me as I've talked to Avery about what's going on in her life and has been a good sounding board for me. A few weeks ago, Angela asked if I would join Avery's sessions because Avery's been having difficulty expressing herself. She thought maybe if she saw me expressing myself, we could work on her doing the same. I did and for the last couple weeks we've been doing counseling together. She's been complaining about a tummy ache since last week, and night before last, she woke up in the middle of the night and began vomiting. She didn't go to ...

I went back and forth about being honest on this blog about my situation. Sharing my story took me some time, but when I began to realize that it was helping other women, I decided it was time I just come out with it. There were things that were coming out in the open whether I liked it or not, so I had a choice to embrace it or hide it. I chose to embrace it.  I want to talk today about honesty and truth, and divorce. When it comes to the ugliness of our characters and the decisions we make as parents and adults, we all have a choice to make with how much to share with our kids about situations that affect them. I read article after article, and so many articles out there encourage parents to keep as much away from kids as we can, so we don't hurt them with adult situations. I totally understand the logic in that. There are so many adult situations kids don't need to be a part of. Ideally, kids would never have to encounter any situation that was difficult, sad or upsetti...