Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that
one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, "The Little Prince"
My blond, curly haired little prince came to me today with a pen and a piece of paper and said, “Draw me a heart.”
I drew my son a heart then he wanted to know if he could learn to draw a heart. We practiced several times but it’s tricky to get the heart looking like a heart when you’re little. So I showed him how to cut one out: We folded the paper and drew the half-heart shape. We decided that this shape looked like a whale sticking his head out of the water.
My son was happy to see a heart when I opened the paper. He tore the heart in half and said, “I’m going to give this half to daddy so he knows that you love him.”
The heart connection that I still have with Ex-man is now invisible to the eye but it hasn't gone unnoticed by my littlest prince.
My stories have been mainly about how this breakup affects me, but of course the breakup with Ex-man has transformational effects on our children. One of the things that I've done to support them is to make sure we make regular visits to our homeopath/naturopath. She helps their physical bodies and emotional bodies and continues to be someone that they can talk with about the changes in their lives.
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