Parents said they would try

For the longest time my mom would not talk to my dad. When they did, they had told us kids that there was no promise but they were going to try to work it out. Talk about false hope. But I knew that it would not work because I knew my mom was going out on a date with another man. I was often home by myself because my mom was out on a date. I remember waking up around midnight and my mom would just be getting in. If my parents were supposed to work it out why is my mother going out on dates? She never gave my dad a shot.