Daddy vs Doggy

Does cheating on your child's mom make you a bad parent?

The dynamics of relationships are tricky and at time treacherous. Although there are times in which the beauty of what can be are realized. Children are gifts and are cherished cargo in life's journey.

But what happens when that journey takes a sudden turn. What happens when one parent forgets to tell the other one that they have changed course. The reasons why one cheats are as numerous as the amount of times it happens in relationships.

But with this major lapse in judgement comes great consequences. Including the possibility of the systematic breakdown of your home.

When a parent makes a decision to look outside the home to see if the grass is greener on the other side their committment to the family is questioned immediately. For many even the love of the children is put in doubt.

How could you do this to them?
what about the children?
Why would you put our family at risk?
Do you care about anyone besides yourself?

Every relationship is different. Every infidelity is sparked by circumstances unique to that couple. But the love of a child is universal. Providing financial, physical, spiritual, medical and educational support to children is done out of love and done without conditions.

These are responsibilities that should be carried out regardless of the current state of your relationship. But when you put the fabric of your children's home in jeopardy, you must acknowledge that it gets a little tricky. You have to be prepared to hear the doubts of your commitment to your family. However loving parents are only human and mistakes are made.
There are times we forget to pay the electric bill and the lights get shut off. What about the times where we forgot to send the lunch money to school and our kid had to eat peanut butter and jelly for the last week. What if we ate ourselves in to bad health and obesity and get diagnosed chronic illness.

All of these are issues caused by lapse ion judgements, Are they irresponsible. Of course. But do they constitute that we can called a bad parent. No.

So the bottom line is this. You can be a dog, the dirtiest dog on the face of the earth and you can be a good parent. But regardless it's your job to protect your children. But don't get stupid, because it is also the job of the person you're hurting to protect the children as well.