1. I do not understand how you type up that entire letter and not realize that yes, you are the asshole.
Life isn't fair, I guess, but people are supposed to try, especially when it comes to their own kids. FFS.
2. Her feelings are "just how she is" but her kids' feelings are what they choose to believe. Uh-huh. Somebody has no idea how responsibility flows in the parent-child relationship. Yes, you have to be the one who changes for your kids! That's fair! Demanding they hide their feelings for you - which is what LW has been doing this whole time and apparently continuing to do - is entirely inappropriate. They're the children. You're the adult. Get it together.
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Life isn't fair, I guess, but people are supposed to try, especially when it comes to their own kids. FFS.
2. Her feelings are "just how she is" but her kids' feelings are what they choose to believe. Uh-huh. Somebody has no idea how responsibility flows in the parent-child relationship. Yes, you have to be the one who changes for your kids! That's fair! Demanding they hide their feelings for you - which is what LW has been doing this whole time and apparently continuing to do - is entirely inappropriate. They're the children. You're the adult. Get it together.