Sarah Kopp

You know, it was so good.

It was probably the first time I felt like I could just, like, breathe out and relax, you know, knowing that he was away and for a period of time I didn't have to worry about him.

He was just gone.

And then, yeah, I blinked and we were sort of at that point where I'm like, oh, gosh, he's about to come out.

What is this going to look like, you know?

And, you know, that was also what played, you know, that was a big part of my decision making of also going to police because not that I'm responsible for what he did, but, you know, I felt like I'd be responsible for what happened to him from that point forward by going and reporting it.

And, you know, knowing that is their father, I didn't want them to be damaged or traumatized by that process.

But, yeah, in the end, I just, I thought.

If anything, I'm modelling the right thing to do, even though it's hard.

And I wanted my kids to learn that, you know, even if something does feel enormously difficult or too hard or scary or anything like that, you know, you should always just do the right thing and it'll work out.

And it has, you know.

Yeah.

It's been certainly very challenging along the way, but we're all at a point now where, you know, we're good.

We've moved on.

You and the kids.

Yeah.

One thing I've consciously tried so hard to do with my own children is...

open up the conversations, you know, no conversation is too scary, too confronting.

Like, I don't care how messy it is, we'll talk about it.

And I'm, you know, they are free to talk to me about whatever it is and there'll be no judgment.