Rebecca POV:

My thoughts are all over the place with Matthew and I am so afraid of making the wrong decision in our relationship that I have been deliberately keeping my distance from him for a while now.

It was good that Matthew didn't push me either and didn't always ask me to meet up except for parenting time every weekend.

This Saturday evening, there was a business community reception, which was important, and a partner in a project I was working on was attending.

Weighing up the options, I had to forgo attending the parenting event this week.

I explained the situation to the kids in advance and they...