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[quote=Anonymous]Being amicable is a huge achievement.

I have one. Our marriage was awful -- he's an addict who cheated on me constantly and treated me horribly. Our split was his "bottom" and made him get serious about treatment, although the marriage was damaged beyond repair and he's still got issues. But we take our commitment seriously to always put our kids first. We split all of our assets and worked out custody and child support on our own without having to get lawyers involved. We treat each other respectfully. We do most holidays together, including he's coming over for Thanksgiving dinner and then I'm traveling to the same vacation destination he is for Christmas. Getting separate hotel rooms and will do our own thing between passing the kids back and forth, but the important thing is that our kids never have to feel divided during holidays.

The key is that I work very hard on letting go of my anger over how he blew up our lives, even though I think the anger would be very justified. But what's the point of being angry? Our lives are what they are, and it would only hurt our kids to have a contentious relationship. I look at it the same way I would about having any difficult, dysfunctional family member -- everyone has them and you deal with the situation the best you can. [/quote]

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