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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents divorced very late in life, when I was married and had three kids (they were in their early 60's).

It definitely affected my life tremendously.  I not only had to deal with the divorce, but they thought since I was an adult, that they had free reign to talk about each other and tell me WAAAYYYY more information about their marriage than they should ever have.

What it did was make me feel like my entire childhood was a lie.  It also made me suddenly feel an enormous weight to worry that both of them were okay, worry about them financially, and emotionally.

It has affected my marriage. I lost trust that "everything is okay"-and continually barrage my husband with making sure our marriage is okay and I am not missing something, worrying all the time that he is unhappy.

I remember as a kid, thinking my parents would divorce. they fought a lot.  But I learned from them that marriage was something you stuck with. Then I un-learned it.

I have a lot of resentment about this issue. At the same time, a respect for my parents as adults who are absolutely free to make their own decisions.[/quote]

My roommates parents divorced in college and it really messed her and her older siblings up.  They also felt like childhood was a lie.  They found out their dad was having an affair.  She wasn’t right for quite awhile.  They were also fairly religious/traditional so she saw it as hypocritical.[/quote]

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