How To Help Your Child Adapt If You Leave Your Marriage Suddenly

If I leave my marriage suddenly, how can I help my child adapt?

With regards to children and divorce, if you leave your marriage suddenly where the child is abruptly left by one of the parents, the best parents are both parents. There should be an arrangement very quickly that the child sees the other parent because young children have no comprehension of where that person went, they don't know if they're safe, if they'll ever see them again and don't understand in general. Therefore it is so important for the child to be with that other parent to know they're okay, because that other parent is half of themselves, the child is now left with half of 'who I am'. Again the child has to cope not adapt, unless their parents can help them adapt by understanding 'you know we just can't live together and we both love you.' Now you can imagine if the child has patterned a positive relation with the parent and then the parent just leaves. You can imagine what this does psychologically to them; this is not a good thing.