Belle Burden
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So I felt this pride and excitement.
And it really some people were incredibly congratulatory and supportive.
And for other people, it made them very uncomfortable that I was speaking about this and writing about it.
And for some, I think it made them they were more critical of me writing about it than of him leaving.
Wow.
Which really surprised me.
Yeah.
Which was really painful for me because I had put myself through that same question.
Am I doing something harmful to my kids?
By telling the truth.
By exposing the story about their father.
They knew everything in the story.
They had lived the story.
But there was this idea that you should never, ever...
speak these stories out loud.
Because?
Because it harms your children by harming their father.
and that it's just not something we talk about.
We keep private things private.
And I, from the beginning, from the moment he asked me to say that it was amicable, I have always felt like being open and honest about this was my path forward.