My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children. The choice was unusual, but loving: We wanted them to live without the shadow of their mother’s mortality hanging over them.

Total shit parents. What a bunch of monsters. Not telling your kids something like this is child abuse. If I’d been in an actual loving family and my parents pulled something like this on me, I’d never have forgiven them.

(As a side note, how they met and started dating would be considered harassment today, as would 95% of pre-2005-ish relationships.)