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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I are happily married to each other for past 20 years (our first marriage).  Our parents and ILs are also not divorced and neither are any of our siblings.

Anyone else here with no divorce in their family?

If you are not divorced, are you happily married?  If you want to divorce but have not yet taken the leap what is stopping you - kids, money, culture, religious belief etc?[/quote]

So far no one. Closest I get is my husband’s uncle and aunt. I have many uncles and aunts, and he has a few too. Also one of my cousins and his wife divorced. I also have many, many cousins.

I wouldn’t be surprised if any of my siblings or ILs did. I think their marriages are doing fine, but some of the couples have personalities and issues that could cause the relationship to change overnight.

While growing up my parents argued so much that I joked they should get a divorce. I didn’t mean that, and honestly their marriage is awesome now that they got past all the kids. WE stressed them out, and they argued. Raising a family is hard. Now they don’t argue really, and they enjoy their grandkids, and the simple retired life.

Unless there is something major like infidelity, abuse, mental illness with lack of compliance, or just jacka**ery..I feel that couples should try to keep working at it. Dh and I have been so stressed out in our marriage, and we went on vacation just the two of us. We didn’t argue once. Once we had a tense urgent scary communication, but we both understood each other and got through it. So, what we thought was stress in our marriage is honestly just a set of little kids eating away at our patience and energy and communication. [/quote]

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