potential problem

Hello!

How are we this day?

So yesterday I said to myself that my girls were getting old enough for me to have the conversation about the potential separation of mommy and daddy. Don't go ballistic on me everything is hunky Dory at my place, it's just that I have always been someone who looks in the future and prepare himself for it accordingly.
Well I was wrong! They told me they didn't like the idea, I tried to make them look at the good side of it: two Christmas presents, two birthday presents, two houses, two of everything. Then they told me what would happen if ever I fell in love again. I've tried to explain to them the difference between daughter and parents love, something that will never end and could never be broken, and the love between mommy and daddy, I told them that yes there was a possibility that I could end up with somebody else and mommy also. But I told them that the person could never take the place of a mother but rather she would become a friend. After a brief pause they asked me if mommy could then have another person in her life, I told them that yes mommy was entitled to have another relationship with another girl. Then they asked me why a girl, I told them that once you go with Chuck you ain't going back!

For the record, we did role-play the situation but this was because my oldest girl brought it up, you know one of those stupid conversations that kids like to have once in a while. But for the record I'm still madly in love with my wife and Marjorie it's only a pigment of my imagination that is filthy rich and likes big chunky guys on wheelchairs.

Happy trails!