This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Am I the A-Hole for shutting down my mother-in-law for insulting my dead ex? Yes, because ghost can't talk back. That's true. This comes from aptly mysterious cod 3255 who says, I-46 male have two children. Thia, 13 female and kale, 10 male. I think it's Kale. C-A-E-L. Kale.

Kale? Kale. Kahl. I'm going with Kale. Their mom passed away five years ago in a car crash.

We had been married at the time, but only legally. For the last three years of her life, we were

pretending to still be together and we stayed married, but it was

all pretending for the kids. We did not want to divorce for our kids' sake. Both of us come

from divorced families and what I consider broken homes because of how badly our parents handled

the divorces. We didn't want that for our kids. We feared we couldn't do better. The end result

was us hating each other. It ran deep too.

I regret that now. The last words we exchanged were not kind. Our kids deserve better than that,

better than having parents who hated each other because we were so afraid to divorce.

Ooh, wow. So after she passed away, I was determined to let go of that hate and I was determined

to make sure the kids knew they were both loved by both parents and were not burdened by the issues

we've had.

Their mom and dad both love them.

I truly believe their mom's love still exists for them in them.

That's beautiful.

At least OP can admit that even though there was like a lot of tumult in that relationship.

Exactly. He's growing and learning from this like tragic event. And they both deserve to know

that love. That's what I was focused on. So I saved everything of hers for them. It's all stored

safely for them one day. I kind of like that. In a couple of years after she passed away, I did remove

most of the photos of our

married life. But I let the kids keep two photos of their choice out in the open in common

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