“I left with a broken heart. I even felt betrayed by my son,” said Thati Lira when she learned that her little boy wanted to live with his father instead of staying with her as usual.
When a father and a mother separate, the logical thing is for minor children go to live with their mother. That is something that we all take for granted and that few of us question, yet, there are cases where these patterns aren’t followed and defy this imposed expectation.
In this way, some time ago, the model and dancer, Thiago Cuhna, told how he’d assumed full custody of his son Pedro, after a decision he made with the little boy’s mother, Thati Lira.

“The normal thing is that children live with their mother when there is a separation, but in this case, Thati (Lira), the mother, and I reached an agreement for him to live with me,” Cuhna said at the time, assuring that taking charge of his son “was the best thing” she could do.
However, now the boy’s mother, Thati, spoke about the process that meant that her 12-year-old son decided, of his own free will, to live with his father instead of keeping custody of him.

After the Brazilian activated the question box on her Instagram account, a person asked her about her son: “Does your beautiful son live with you or with the dad?”. To this she replied, “Today he lives with his father,” opening the conversation on the subject.
In that same publication, the dancer assured that “it was a decision of my son Pedro”. “When I separated the last time and left the house to a rented room at the last minute. He told me that he didn’t want to leave his room or his games and that he always stayed with me. That he loved me just the same,” she said.
“I respected his opinion due to the circumstances and I left with a broken heart, even feeling ‘betrayed’ by him. Then I understood that he is a child and that it would be great if his father cared for him using another dynamic,” she added.

Regarding her son’s relationship with his father, Thati assures that “it’s incredible”, and that he also adores his father’s current girlfriend.
“Pedro is a very happy child, respected and loved by everyone around him,” she remarked.
