re: Raise your hand if you, your parents and your grandparents never divorced

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Not trashy, so no divorces

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frick this guy.

Signed,

A child of divorce.

No divorces among our grandparents and parents. We're still going strong after 39 years. .

Yes, and wife's family as well. Also great grandparents. Could probably go further back. Catholics did not often divorce until recently.

Hand up.

Here. Neither pair of grandparents divorced. Parents didn't divorce. I've been married for 2 decades with no divorce.

Still married.

Parents are still together.

One set of grandparents were married till each died.

The other set were married till she died. He subsequently married and divorced wife 2, and was with wife 3 until he died.

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Wife's parents were killed in a plane crash when she was but 2 months old. Raised by her aunt [adopted] and never would have known if not told

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Yep. I can relate. Just realized I misspoke in my post. I typed out that they were killed two weeks after I was born. That’s incorrect. They were killed two weeks after my first birthday.

I was raised by maternal grandmother. Toughest human being I’ve ever met. Born in 1920, grew up in the Great Depression, sent her future husband off to WWII along with 5 brothers and numerous cousins. Raised three kids, two of her own and her younger sister’s boy. And between 1966 and 1971, buried both of her parents, her husband, and both of her children*, then was left to raise her two grandsons, the oldest about to turn 3, and the youngest (me) just turned 1, all by herself.

*the car accident that killed my parents also killed my uncle. He was driving, my father was in the front seat, my mother in the back. From what I’ve been told they were going down what is called Whitney Mountain on Hwy 231 in North Alabama when they had a blowout at high speed. There were no guardrails and they went over the side of the mountain. Both my uncle and father were killed instantly. My mother though apparently lived for a while but was trapped in the backseat of the car. This happened sometime around 1 AM and the wreck was discovered around 7 or 8 AM. The police said she was still warm when they got down the mountain to where the car had come to rest. They thought she might still be alive at first but she’d apparently died of internal bleeding not long before they got to her. That’s really the only thing that’s ever bothered me about it. I hope she was unconscious. But there’s no way to know. The thought of her trapped in that car though with her dead husband and brother while she herself was dying. That’s always haunted me. I wish I could have known her.

My parents, Grandparents, Aunt and Uncles none of them ever divorced.

Wife and I are very Catholic and very successful. We ain't divorcing so our kids will feel they're superior to divorce kids.

Hand raised.

Grandparents married 54 and 52 years until grandpas passed.

Parents married 61 years until dad passed.

Married 32 years.

Great grandparents also never divorced.

Three uncles. None divorced.

In-laws divorced after we married.