Wife wants a nice Christmas before starting divorce

How can she do this? She is giving me destroyed dreams, a broken family, and a trashed heart, but she expects me to act like nothing is wrong through Christmas. I'm falling apart. I need to go watch my 7th grade play a basketball game and be the father I want to be to him and his brothers. I can't keep it together. 

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broken234
broken234

You can do this. I was right where you were at Xmas last year. You can do this for your kids. But don\'t do it alone. Is there a family member you can talk to. If not we are all here for you. Message me if you want to talk. Take it one day at a time. One hour at a time. One minute at a time of you need to.
refurb
refurb

absolutely not, give them reality, your wife is full of shit, this fake Christmas is so she can continue the charade, if the kids come first, saving their family would come first
if you buy into the fake Christmas you are co-parenting by agreeing to blow smoke up your kids asses
she\'ll give you the line of shit about this being for the children...it ain\'t
idontmakeherhapyenuf
idontmakeherhapyenuf

I want to protect my kids from the pain I know is ahead of them. I won\'t be able to do much because we are so very close. I know when she tells them, their world will be shaken very hard and will want to know why their mother is destroying our family. I completely sympathize with the emotion you are expressing Refurb and I feel it resonate in me but I don\'t have to raise a finger to watch my kids be traumatized by the truth of their mother\'s actions. They will look at our family as the victim and their mother as the cause of the pain. I just know how devastated I am. They are absolutely innocent and trusting in their parents. Their family has been a source of love, happiness, and security their entire lives. How much more pain with they go through than I do? I can\'t bear the thought of it. There is little I can do, but I will try what I may.

Having said that. I will NEVER excuse her for doing this. It is wrong. She will realize that I have no doubt. My children will understand it too without my having to lay blame. But I will not ever tell them what she is doing and putting us through is ever OK.
idontmakeherhapyenuf
idontmakeherhapyenuf

It is freaking amazing she sends me photos of jewelry with engraving about a mother\'s love for her children that she wants me to take the boys to see in the store in hopes they will want me to buy them so they can give them to her for Christmas presents. Forgive that horrible sentence but I\'m so pissed I can\'t type correctly.
thiscantbe
thiscantbe

Yes, mother of the year award for putting her new fantasy life above reality and the love of her husband & children. Sounds about right, ???? I think that your wife is a bit \"Crazy\". Sorry, I never met her but seriously. ???