Quote Originally Posted by nawteeone View Post
My kids come first always. It's for their sake I stay with their dad. IMO I'm in this marriage until the youngest is 18, and that's a long way away. Hopefully after that, we can part ways amicably. .
Please, please, PLEASE, be careful with this. If you read my post, one of my closest friends had this happen to him. His parents agreed to stay together until he moved out of the house and when they did part ways, it was not pretty. My friend felt betrayed and was horrified when his parents told him it was something they'd planned. He felt like his whole childhood was a lie and he strongly resented them for it. Even now, 4 years later, he will not speak to his father at all. He also refuses to ever get married, he says because of this experience.

This is a very fragile issue and I wish you only the best of luck dealing with this, but please consider every possibility as I hate to see what happened to my friend happen to someone else.