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[quote=Anonymous]I know of a few couples who stayed together for the kids...there are two big divorce-rate humps: ~7 years and then ~20 years, with the latter being the "stayed together until the kids were out of the home" bunch.

It does work, but generally has these features:

- no more fighting
- generally lead separate personal lives
- agree on logistics (money, housing) 
- agree on parenting

If you all are fighting all the time, particularly about logistics and parenting, then maybe a divorce is better.

My own parents waited 10 years too long to get divorced because they were "trying" and "staying together for the kids" and it absolutely did not help us at all.  It was WW-III, and all we learned was how to scream at people we were in a relationship with (had to unlearn that).  Things were dramatically better once they divorced.  Sure, we all had "issues" resulting from coming from a broken marriage, but we would have had those issues even if our parents had stayed together.[/quote]

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