Facing the decision to end your relationship can be traumatic. It’s rarely a black and white decision. Often, it’s one fraught with mixed emotions and uncertainty. Even if you want to separate, the pressure to make the ‘right’ decision can be enormous, especially when you have children.
Being confronted by your partner’s decision to separate can leave you feeling hurt and devastated, with your life seeming to spin out of control. It can be hard to understand why your relationship hasn’t been working. How did it come to this?