"It's hard to imagine a 5- or 6-year-old going to a psychiatric hospital," he says, but "sometimes God gives perfectly nice parents very complicated kids".
Although the law in Germany is complicated, the kids are registered in France, a country that allows home schooling.
Houseshare is the best option but it's complicated when kids and couples are involved, and estate agents are suspicious.
"Because social rules are so complicated, when kids are little, they're really trying to learn them, so they take them very seriously," she said.
When it comes to dating after divorce, relationships can be complicated with kids and ex's, and loving again takes vulnerability and courage, which I don't know if I have.
Like other blended families (via divorce, death or other blending) poly families can be complicated, and kids in poly families can get close to someone who leaves or have to deal with the stigma flowing from grandparents, teachers or peers' parents.
Max describes his childhood as surprisingly normal, but the reality must have been painfully complicated: a soft kid in a chaotic, fatherless home, surrounded by the framed reminders of Camelot and so allergic to the pollen blowing in off the Potomac that he couldn't be without an inhaler.
Things get more complicated if a kid is self-employed.
Of course there is nothing sweeter then a naked baby running through a field like an enchanted wood nymph, but this can get complicated when your kid insists on doing downward dog with their genitals facing your dinner party.
Have you ever looked at your life and realized that the kids complicated things in your marriage, and that it is actually because of the kids that your marriage ultimately went down the drain?
