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Can divorce AFFECT KIDS?

‘I don’t trust people easily, especially men’

Xolani Gumede, 31, is the fashion editor for Essentials and lives in Naturena, Joburg.

When I was a child, my dad was super analytical and unemotional, while my mom was the complete opposite; always very affectionate.

The two met while my mom was in high school and the beginning of their marriage was blissful. But as time went by, their relationship got progressively bad. The last three years of their marriage were the worst, which was around the time when my dad started seeing someone else.

She was 22 at the time, just six years older than I

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