A woman had filed for divorce against her husband. The case was being heard in court. They had two little children together. The judge, before passing any final decision, wanted to understand the situation fully. He asked the woman one simple but powerful question:
“After divorce, who will take the responsibility of these children?”
The woman replied, “Of course, I will raise them. I am their mother. They will stay with me.”
The judge turned to the father and asked, “And what about you? Will you be able to stay away from your children?”
The father’s face darkened with grief. He stayed silent for a while and then softly said, “I cannot imagine my life without my children. I cannot spend even a single day without them.”
The judge, curious to understand further, asked, “Tell me then, what do your children usually say about you?”
The woman quietly looked down. But the father, with trembling lips, began to share the words of his children:
“My daughter always says: Papa, feed me with your own hands. Food tastes better when you give it to me.”
“My younger one says: Papa, please tell me bedtime stories, I can’t sleep without you beside me.”
“Every evening when I return home tired, my children run to hug me and say, Papa, lift us up! Papa, play with us in the park!”
He paused for a moment, then continued:
“They even ask me: Papa, don’t go back to the office, don’t leave us. We can’t stay without you.”
As he said these words, tears welled up in his eyes. His voice cracked. The silence in the courtroom grew heavy.
The children’s mother was shaken too. She realized these were the very same innocent words her children repeated every day at home, words she had never paid attention to. For the first time, she noticed the depth of their love for their father.
The father’s tears continued to fall, and the judge’s own eyes also moistened. After a long silence, the judge asked the woman again, “Do you really want to separate these children from their father? Do you want to deny them the comfort, love, and security of both parents together?”
At that moment, the woman broke down. She realized how her anger, her ego, and her bitterness had blinded her to the needs of her children. She whispered through tears, “No… I don’t want divorce. I don’t want to break this home. I only want peace and love to return between us.”
The courtroom echoed with silence. Even the lawyers and people present felt the weight of that moment. Everyone knew that divorce is not just the separation of two people—it is the tearing apart of children’s lives, the destruction of their emotional world.
Reflection
Divorce is sometimes necessary when situations are unbearable, but often it is born out of ego, impatience, or anger. Children are innocent; they should not suffer because of their parents’ conflicts.
A home is not held together by walls—it is held together by love, patience, forgiveness, and responsibility. Sometimes, instead of breaking apart, we must try to heal what is broken.
✨ Moral: If you cannot live together for yourselves, then at least live together for the sake of your children. Their happiness and emotional well-being depend on both parents equally.
