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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stupid dichotomy. Life moves in phases. When your children are young, the kids come first because their sheer survival depends upon your placing them as a priority. As the kids get older, then yes, the marriage take priority. It's not a zero-sum game either. I like my husband more when I think he's being a really great dad and get pissed off at him when I think that he could be doing a better job at parenting.[/quote]

I agree.  There are seasons to a marriage and to parenting.  I think it's unhealthy to look at it as black and white from either perspective - being in the camp that proclaims DH #1 or the camp that puts the kids there.

There was a woman on Oprah years ago who talked about this being her belief system.  Didn't she say she wouldn't die for a child, because they could have more children, but she'd die for her DH b/c she couldn't imagine living without him?  If I didn't screw that up, does that sound healthy and well adjusted to you?[/quote]

Yikes, you sound like a moron. That "woman on Oprah" was Ayelet Waldman, and her NYT piece on this subject provoked more letters to the editor than ever before. It was a huge sensation. Not just an "Oprah" thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/fashion/27love.html

http://ayeletwaldman.com/
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Geez, what a jerk you are.  Are you really that much better than the PP because you read Waldman's piece in the Times before it was on Oprah?  Get off your high-horse.  And in case you're wondering, yes I read the piece in the Times before it was on Oprah, too.  [/quote]

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