Anyone know the answer here?

[SPKrazy]

Does it ever stop "getting to" you if you are separated from your child, and you have to leave him or her... and know that you will see them again, but not every day like you did?

Just wondering if anyone knows?

I don't. It hasn't seemed any easier.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Southpawkicker...

Awww...sweetie...

I have no words for what you must be going through...

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

2. It's just such a contrast

i'm having fun with him

then he goes home with his mom

i hug him

he tells me he loves me

and he goes

:hug:

[YankeyMCC]

3. I doubt it...

My career has frequently involved periods of travel. I've had to be away from my son for days even a couple of weeks at times. I started to get somewhat used to that, particularly as he got older, I still missed him and when it was a week or more I still felt that particular kind of loneliness that comes from missing a child occasionally but phone calls usually got me through alright.

But now my wife and I are separated and have just recently started the custody rotation and the moment he left for school on the morning of the day that his mother would pick him up in the afternoon for 'her week' I felt that loneliness I mentioned above in full force and I hasn't gone away yet.

[SPKrazy]

5. damn it

I was afraid of that

I guess we just get used to the pain or something.

thanks

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

4. can't imagine what it's like.

hope to god it never happens to me. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

6. never thought it would to me elrond

thanks

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

7. i don't think many people really see it coming, do you?

[SPKrazy]

10. oh saw it coming

but staved it off for a while

:shrug:

[BarenakedLady]

8. :(

I don't want to find out.

I'm sorry dude.

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

9. hi

:hug:

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

11. I hope to goodness

that you don't hon

:hug: :hug:

[soleft]

12. I know. And it does get easier. Eventually.

I left the apartment my son lived in when he was fourteen. It was probably around the time he was sixteen that the weight of sadness in my chest began to lift. Now that he's 18, I tell myself, well, if he was away at College, I wouldn't see him more than a few days every couple of months. I'll be seeing him Thursday to watch Lost, and I'm really looking forward to it.

I know people pooh pooh the notion that it's quality and not quantity, but when you don't have quantity - you want to make the best time together that you can. And that helps.

[SPKrazy]

14. bless you and your son

and the time you get to spend with him

may it be that quality time

:hug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. ...

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[SPKrazy]

15. thanks peake

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[ChoralScholar]

16. I'm not sure...

I would imagine not, but my kiddo's 3, so I can't even fathom at this point.

It's tough, I'll bet.

You could always make a trip across the line to Pocola and make some friends to take your mind off it (inside Arkansan joke)

That freeze line hit like a ton of bricks today didn't it?

[SPKrazy]

17. like a windy ton of bricks

i'll stay away from pocola today

tomorrow :shrug:

[SPKrazy]

18. seems pretty much the consensus

that you never get over it

maybe just used to the pain

:shrug: