Why It’s Easier To Be With Our Kids Than Our Spouse
The mother-infant bond is an animal instinct that is essential to an infant’s survival, and also brings us primal joy as parents. But if we don’t emotionally wean our children, it jeopardizes their future relationships (not to mention our marriage).
The truth is, we often feel more love from our kids than from our spouses so we make our children the center of our lives. From the outside, it seems as though this model is child-friendly, but it becomes a double-whammy for our kids: they may go on to form needy, unstable relationships with their lovers, and we parents often end up either legally divorced or “emotionally” divorced, like roommates in the same house.
The good news is, it’s never too late to create a great marriage that your kids will want to emulate when it’s their turn.
