I Made My Divorce Harder on My Kids Than It Needed to Be. I Told Myself They Were Fine.

Chris Coulter doesn't pretend he handled his divorce well. It got ugly, his kids were in the middle of it, and he told himself they were fine because he needed to believe it. This post is a raw reckoning with what he missed — how children protect their parents from pain, why silence isn't resilience, and the question every divorcing parent needs to sit with before it's too late.