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I would rather marry someone whose parents are divorced than someone whose parents stayed together but were miserable.   Divorce is not a failure.  Why stay with someone if it isn't working out?[/quote]

+1. As the child of an alcoholic parent and a verbally abusive parent, it served no societal good for two people to remain in an absolutely miserable marriage. [/quote]

Having an alcoholic parent is a big red flag. [/quote]

I am the former pp.  It sounds like you are blaming the kid for having an alcoholic parent...which is pretty crappy.  You can't  choose your parents, you do know that?[/quote]

I’m a DP but I don’t think it’s about blame, per se. It’s about the knowledge— borne out by studies— that certain traits tend to run in families. We talk about cycles of abuse. We know that women in particular are often blamed for their choices of partners if they marry abusers, alcoholics, addicts.  Therefore we do well to consider the reality of the totality of the people we (or our children) marry.[/quote]

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