I wanted Stefan's mother to stay involved with him, but I wanted him to live with me. And I didn't ever have a romantic involvement with Stefan's mother. But they're just gambling with their own future and their kids' futures. The truth is, people don't stay married any more. They separate in a fury that's just as hot as their love once was, and it's the kids who really get burned.
Romance is by nature often a fleeting, temporary kind of thing.
A child needs stability. So I didn't want a romance with the mother of my child. So you will never have to stay with someone you don't like just for the sake of the child. And Stefan can count on both me and his mother always being there for him. She and I have never been in love, so we never have fallen out of love.