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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew a couple women who were informed as teenagers that their fathers cheated and it clearly messed them up. Lots of other kids of civilized divorces seemed much more normal. And some of those civilized divorces involved infidelity. The parents just divorced and moved on and focused on keeping the kids nurtured and healthy. The results are stark. No reason at all to tell kids. That’s why I never told my kids about my cheating spouse. Makes no difference in the end if she were a cheater, a drunk, or we just grew apart. In the end there’s a break and you move on. [/quote]

Most kids come to see the cheating parent’s selfishness and delusion over time.  I know so many kids that weren’t told, but experienced the same lies and borderline and histrionics as the parent aged.[/quote]

It’s a family once you decide to have and raise kids.

When you are going to break apart a family, kids need and deserve an age appropriate response.

By teens, they certainly understand adultery.

If you decide to break up the house and things had seemed happy to the kids, they deserve a reason they now have to shuttle back and forth between 2 homes and spend holidays apart.[/quote]

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