for things to calm down after an alcoholic ex is out of the picture? My ex has been gone since November, and things are so much better! I have a wonderful boyfriend, who I was friends with before we started a relationship. My family has been very supportive to me and the kids. Things are just...better. So why am I still so angry? Why is my oldest daughter acting out possibly worse than she did when her father was still here? My therapist told me she is trying to create conflict in the household because it is all she has known, and that living in a peaceful household is out of her comfort zone. This makes me very, very sad. I feel a LOT of guilt for all the things that my children have had to experience and witness in their short lives.
I have been told it will just take some time, but I am having a hard time being patient, especially with myself. I want the anger and the pain and the conflicted emotions to be gone.
