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[quote=Anonymous]My parents did! I begged them to separate or get divorced since I was 8 years old, but they didn't.  Dad asked me to move in with him but I said I'd stay with mom, and they didn't separate.
Mom finally moved out when I was senior in high school.Oh, how I wish it had happened earlier...Dad was physically abusive and always drunk.
My sister and I left the country, in fact we left the continent to get away from all the dysfunction.
My parents love us dearly, they never abused us or denied us anything.I wished my father had beaten me instead of my mom.It was hard to watch and even harder to understand why mom didn't do anything about it and why she couldn't understand how damaging it was to her kids.
I'd like to say that we turned out fine living here-I'm about to get my Bachelor's and sister got her Master's from Georgetown, but I can tear up in a minute when I see parents arguing/yelling in front of their children (sorry, too much DR. Phil, and saw a physical fight at Children's hospital).
That's child abuse in my book/ 
I hope you don't put your kids through anything like that.All they really want to be is happy, and they are not happy when their parents are not happy.
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