#Leonie is a woman in her 40s, she could be your neighbor. After her divorce, she builds her new life. With neighbor Mandy she has dinner appointments of the good kind: Mandy cooks! Love also comes around the corner, with all the consequences that entails.

The next afternoon, Leonie's children came back to her. Julia looked angry and threw her bag in a corner of the hallway. “Is something wrong?” asked Leonie. Julia stomped to her room, but came out immediately afterwards. Leonie saw that she cried. “Heeey, girl, what is going on?” She wanted to wrap her arm around Julia and pull her towards her, but Julia slammed her hand away. She walked into the living room and popped on the couch. She sat forward and leaned her head on her fists. Leonie stayed in the doorway. “Julia, what is going on?” she finally asked.

“It's all your fault,” Julia said. She looked up briefly, but then immediately looked back to the ground. “My fault?” asked Leonie. “Yes. You wanted a divorce. That's why we have two houses now, I have to change rooms all the time. And now Daddy has a girlfriend. I don't like it anymore.” Julia burst into crying. Leonie was just as perplexed. Then she got down on her knees before Julia sat down and tried to look her daughter in the eye.

“I really understand that it's not fun for you...”, she didn't know how to pursue her sentence, but Julia solved that by falling into her mind. “You don't understand that at all. You don't know what it's like to have to switch home every few days. When I'm with Daddy, I miss you, and when I'm here, I miss Daddy. We can never do anything together again. I want everything to go back to normal, the way it should be, the way it is with other people. You could have stayed with Dad, couldn't you?” Now Julia looked at her. Leonie didn't know what to do with it. “You're both so happy. You and your new home and be alone here without us and daddy with that stupid girlfriend.” Again the tears ran down Julia's cheeks.

“Ho, wait!” said Leonie. “Happy to do? Am I happy? That might sound like that to you, but I also have to get used to. I find it hardest not to see you every day. And I get why you think I could have stayed with Dad. But I'm sure it would have made us all unhappy if I had. Children are more of two happy parents who are divorced. Oh, really. Believe me. “

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