Haven’t posted on this thread ever, but I really feel for her re: the whole David spending Christmas with the kids and his new girlfriend. My parents split when I was 12 and to this day ( I’m in my mid 20s and my siblings are late 20s/ early 30s) we all spend Christmas together, granted my dads partner is Spanish and goes home for Christmas and my mum is single. It wasn’t the most amicable divorce in the world but my parents always made the effort to be together for significant events like birthdays and Christmas especially in the early years, I understand this isn’t the norm but it meant so much at the time and still does to this day. It’s so hard as a child and I can’t even imagine as a parent in that situation but children come first, I’m not saying it’s the solution for every family but looking back at those first few years when my parents were making the effort to have us all together it was so lovely to have that sense of normality and togetherness and still does to this day.