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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a child of divorce, I will say it seems the most screwed up kids are the ones whose parents indulge in anger, revenge, pettiness, etc. My parents have always gotten along perfectly cordially, made decisions about me civilly, backed each other up in dealing with me, and never said a bad word about the other, ever. I don't consider myself to be screwed up in any material way. I also don't know anything about the reasons my parents divorced, nor do I need to.[/quote]

I'm also a child of divorce and wish I could say the same.  I posted up-thread about my parents' marriage disintegrating when I was four.  I think I ended up a pretty okay adult with a whole textbook worth of ideas on What Not to Do as a Parent.

But I'm 100% certain that would not have been the case had I stayed with my mother.  I left her house when I was 8 and never looked back or spoke to her again, but she's still likely messed up from what I know.  She was griping out loud about my father at a family wedding almost 30 years after they had divorced.  I never once heard him say a bad word about her, though anyone who met her would say he had good reason.

She'd probably be joining in with the women here trying to tear OP down.[/quote]

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