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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My parents' divorce was a great relief to me and my sibling.[/b] I know it was hard on my mom as a single parent (and only realize that now that I'm a parent myself) but it would have been much worse if they had stayed together.[/quote]

I don't believe this constant line of BS we always see on DCUM.

NO child is happy when their parents get divorced.

My parents were the "shouting and hitting each other" kind. My sibling and I were not "happy and relieved" about the divorce. We were devastated. In retrospect we see that it was inevitable but we also acknowledge that it caused us lifelong psychological damage.[/quote]

You dont have to believe it...no one cares what you believe. For me, when I was 9 and my mom said "grab a suitcase, we're out of here" it was the happiest day of my life. Dad wasn't abusive to us kids, but he was terrible to our mom, and it felt like abuse to us. I've come to have a relationship with him in the last few years, but I don't miss having him out of our lives through adolescence.

For all the folks who can't fathom people's emotional experiences are broad and vast and varied, you need to get out more, open your ears and minds and realize that the world is bigger than your small frame of reference. 
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