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[quote=Anonymous]Parents divorced when I was 8.  (M).

Made for a complicated childhood and made everything worse from my perspective.  All the negatives you'd expect: time-splitting was disruptive, all kinds of weird emotions between parents, holidays weren't the same, and so forth.

Most significant impacts in the long run, though, were as follows:

1.  As a kid, I lost respect for my parents and certainly wasn't inclined to listen to their advice, given the mess they'd made of their lives.

2.  As an adult, I've realized that the divorce negatively impacted my life skills.  To take a minor example, I don't know how to fix things.  Why?  Because my father was the handy one, and he wasn't around to teach me when I was a kid.  (When I saw him, we went to dinner and watched a movie or something like that).

Me?  I've been married happily for 14 years and have two kids.  I am deeply committed to avoiding the mistakes that my parents made (selfishness, anger, refusal to compromise).  So that's a good thing, but I still don't have much regard for the way they lived their lives.[/quote]

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