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How many of us are products of a divorced family?
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:35 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:35 am
Raises hand.
How many of us who have been married are also divorcees as well?
Raises hand.
Is there any correlation that those who were raised in a broken home end potentially end up with a broken home themselves?
# 6
I was unaware of this, but I can see why.
Costly fact. The average 1st marriage lasts 8 years.
How many of us who have been married are also divorcees as well?
Raises hand.
Is there any correlation that those who were raised in a broken home end potentially end up with a broken home themselves?
quote:
Children with divorced parents are twice as likely to attempt suicide.
# 6
I was unaware of this, but I can see why.
Costly fact. The average 1st marriage lasts 8 years.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 7:36 am
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Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:42 am to Will Cover
Well, since you’re one of them, why don’t you tell us if you were influenced to divorce your wife due to thoughts or feelings about your parents?
My parents are still together. My ex wife’s parents are still together. But we aren’t.
Each couple’s story is different. I will say, I got married believing I was committed for life. I think she felt the same way. But we grew apart, we took each other for granted, we saw different paths in life.
Breaking the news to our parents really sucked. We disappointed two families.
My parents are still together. My ex wife’s parents are still together. But we aren’t.
Each couple’s story is different. I will say, I got married believing I was committed for life. I think she felt the same way. But we grew apart, we took each other for granted, we saw different paths in life.
Breaking the news to our parents really sucked. We disappointed two families.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 7:43 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:42 am to Will Cover
Divorce is trashy
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:44 am to Will Cover
Well living in an unhappy marriage isn’t all its cracked up to be either.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:44 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Living together in perpetual misery is trashy.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:46 am to Will Cover
Opposite is actually happening, divorce rates continue to trend downward since their peak near 1980
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:47 am to UltimaParadox
That's so difficult to believe.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:50 am to Will Cover
It's actually wild the difference between people that come from broken homes and parents who are still together, generally speaking.
I say that as someone from a broken home as well.
Broken homes and IQ rates are the real underlying reason the black community can't find any sort of success and progress.
Compare them to the Asian community which has a low divorce rate and high IQ level.
I say that as someone from a broken home as well.
Broken homes and IQ rates are the real underlying reason the black community can't find any sort of success and progress.
Compare them to the Asian community which has a low divorce rate and high IQ level.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:50 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:If you consider that the marriage rate is also about 50% of what it was in the 1980s, it isn’t so hard to believe.
That's so difficult to believe.
The marriages that remain are lasting.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:50 am to Will Cover
Mine divorced when I was 6. And I was old enough to know that they fought and yelled all the time and that it wasn’t a good situation. And they actually got along much better afterwards than they ever did before.
And thankfully, they put most of their bullshite aside, for me, and were able to attend pretty much all of my stuff (school stuff, sports games, etc.) and be around each other without any problems. Hell, my mom and I still went to my dad’s family’s on Christmas Eve every year and it was never a problem.
I’m definitely proof that a divorce can be a good thing for the kid if both parents are willing to put their bullshite aside and be civil and manage to get along.
And thankfully, they put most of their bullshite aside, for me, and were able to attend pretty much all of my stuff (school stuff, sports games, etc.) and be around each other without any problems. Hell, my mom and I still went to my dad’s family’s on Christmas Eve every year and it was never a problem.
I’m definitely proof that a divorce can be a good thing for the kid if both parents are willing to put their bullshite aside and be civil and manage to get along.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 8:11 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:51 am to TygerTyger
quote:
why don’t you tell us if you were influenced to divorce your wife due to thoughts or feelings about your parents?
Wasn't me. She initiated the separation and she initiated the divorce.
quote:
Breaking the news to our parents really sucked. We disappointed two families.
My dad was having serious medical issues when we separated and divorced, and I didn't burden him with my issue. He just knows, although we have never spoken about it. My mom has dementia and only recalls memories from a long time ago, even preceding my birth. There is a blessing in that, as strange as that may sound.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:53 am to Havoc
quote:
Well living in an unhappy marriage isn’t all its cracked up to be either.
I think many people try to achieve happiness from their spouse, and they have it all wrong. It's a burden that many spouses can't carry or handle.
Happiness must come from within. Couples should be able to bring fulfillment, joy, and pleasure to one another, but never happiness. A person must be happy on their own for if they are not, nothing else will matter.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:53 am to TygerTyger
My grandparents were married for 40+ years and the other side was married for 50+. My parents were married for 40+ before my father passed. I'm a divorcee and while I never heard the shame to my face, I'm sure there was judgement said behind my/ our backs. Oh well
And the only one of my 2 other siblings to have divorced
And the only one of my 2 other siblings to have divorced
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 7:55 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 7:58 am to Will Cover
My parents will be married 52 years come September.
However, I went through a divorce and have two daughters from first marriage.
Wife 1 met in bar. Disaster of a marriage and of course she cheated
Met my current wife at church through friends. Married 13+ years and happy
However, I went through a divorce and have two daughters from first marriage.
Wife 1 met in bar. Disaster of a marriage and of course she cheated
Met my current wife at church through friends. Married 13+ years and happy
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:00 am to Will Cover
Marriage ends in either death or divorce. Think about the poor souls who don’t get divorced.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:00 am to Will Cover
quote:
How many of us are products of a divorced family?
If you've never read it, Fight Club is an incredible book and speaks very well to the Gen X male. There's a passage in it where Tyler says "We're a generation of men raised by women", and in alot of ways that's true. Boomer Dads weren't always much for sticking around.
I read this half joking theory once that said the proliferation of Jiffy Lubes and 5 minute oil change places took hold because us Gen X'ers didn't have Dads around to teach us to do shite like that ourselves.
Just something to sit with.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 8:02 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:01 am to Will Cover
I think yes, but there are lots of other factors at play.
Think about fatherlessness, it can be overcome if you live in a community of fathers even if you dont have one, but if you look at some predominantly black communities that are majority fatherless households that causes lots of issues.
There is no check on the children, or the women.
Think about fatherlessness, it can be overcome if you live in a community of fathers even if you dont have one, but if you look at some predominantly black communities that are majority fatherless households that causes lots of issues.
There is no check on the children, or the women.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:02 am to TygerTyger
quote:
Each couple’s story is different. I will say, I got married believing I was committed for life. I think she felt the same way. But we grew apart, we took each other for granted, we saw different paths in life.
It’s so easy to grow apart. I think everyone including me should try harder to grow together instead of apart. I’m very guilty of this myself. We see the world we live in everyday become worse because it’s easier to have an abortion instead of being responsible and it’s easier to get a divorce because we’d rather not try and work on the marriage.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:03 am to Will Cover
parents never divorced. I'm still with wife of 42 yra
Posted on 3/30/24 at 8:04 am to Bullfrog
quote:no, that's honorable and dignified
Living together in perpetual misery is trashy.
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