Dear Steve and Shirley, I have known my partner for 5 years and we have a child together. In the beginning, my partner cheated on me multiple times and I was very hurt, but I loved him and wanted to move forward with the relationship. Everything was fine for four years and then our relationship got stale and we started arguing a lot, so we mutually decided to take a break from each other for a little while. We talked about dating other people while we were on our break and we decided that seeing other people was not our primary focus for the breakup, the breakup was for us to work on ourselves and then come back together and be a real family..................

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