Sympathetically Challenged

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles de Lint

Perhaps it should say...the problem with divorced parents is that you have to put up with their children. Which, I might add, is not an easy thing to do. Particularly when you have become evil personified. I know that I should support PC when he talks about his kids and their accomplishments. He is, after all, proud of them, and rightly so. Any parent likes to extol about their kids. However, should I be subjected to hearing about things that only remind me that this is the source of what is deeply frustrating and hurtful in my life?