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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP +1
At 50+ I still feel the repercussions of the divorce bomb that went off in our neighborhood in the 70s. The kids I know whose parents split up—guess what we are not divorced. 20+ years married kids in college or heading that way (will be paid for) saving for retirement. All marriages had ups and downs but subconsciously we all avoided divorce. THe couples I know now that have have parents who did not divorce so they do not know what it feels like to a kid. [/quote]

Can anyone else follow this post?  I get that you are against divorce but the reasons are, to put it nicely, unclear.[/quote]

I gathered that the poster was saying there was a divorce epidemic in the neighborhood where she grew up. She and the other kids she knew whose parents were so traumatized by the disintegration of their parents’ marriages that they all went on to have much more successful marriages of their own. PP seems to have benefitted from the resume of her parents divorce by making her own lasting, stable marriage in which to raise her kids. And she asserts that her peers, the other children of divorce, all did the same. [/quote]

Thank you for clarifying. And the last bit states that the peers I know who have divorced did not grow up the children of divorce (their parents’ still together) so they can not predict what it feels like to be a child of divorce. If abuse, addiction, I get it. If bored and want excitement think clearly about where this is headed. Excitement has a 2 year shelf life. [/quote]

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