It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.

Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it's all incomplete and often fanciful - kids know there's something to know, and they fill in a bunch of the blanks with their imaginations if their parents haven't had the conversations and/or established themselves as sources of information. It's rare that the kids know nothing at all, and the somethings they do know are often only partially right or flat-out wrong.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.