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One morning, as Paul was taking our son to preschool, our little boy asked him,“ Daddy, what’ s divorce?”
Paul tried to remain calm, of course, and replied,“ Buddy, where did you hear that word?”
Our son went on to explain that his friend in preschool was crying yesterday because his parents are getting a divorce and that means that his daddy won’ t be sleeping in the house anymore at night.
Our son said to Paul,“ I don’ t want to get one of those divorces, Daddy, because I need you to sleep in your room, near mine, every night.”
Paul fought back tears, knowing that if I hadn’ t single-handedly saved our relationship a few years back, that fate could very well have been our own son’ s as well.
Paul reassured our son and told him that divorce cannot happen to us.
Paul came home that day and told me that he felt called … that WE must do something to help people like those parents.
“ If they just knew what you figured out, Stacey, then those boys could be sleeping down the hall from 2 parents tonight instead of trying to figure out how to live bouncing from house to house, always missing one of their parents!”
That was the beginning of what is now Relationship Development. Our entire mission, 14 + years of helping thousands of people around the world, saving countless families, serving loads of children … was BORN during a time when the economy was causing so much stress and pain for so many families.
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