I deeply regret the mom I was during my divorce. I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to my daughters.

The author said it was difficult to be the mom she wanted to be while navigating her divorce. Courtesy of Amber Campbell. I studied child development partly to give my future children what I didn't have growing up. Then my marriage imploded, and the stress of a high-conflict divorce made me unrecognizable. My daughters are grown now, and I'm trying to be the mom they deserve. As my daughters and I canvassed the neighborhood trick-or-treating, my 8-year-old dressed as a devil and her 5-year-...