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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who don’t know any divorced couples I wonder where you live.
I am in the boat of knowing very few happily married couples.

We aren’t talking about rough patches.
When you are married to an addict or an abuser the entire marriage becomes a rough patch.  And often those character flaws don’t become fully apparent until after the arrival of children.

Oh I also blame youth sports.  No one spends nearly enough time cultivating their most important relationship in this area.

We as a culture want for too much — career success, financial success, super star children, material attainment, athletic success …something has to give.

The way lives in the UMC work around here marriage hardly stands a chance.  [/quote]

I'm in the DC area and 99% of our friends are still married (we're on year 26). All of us are UMC. [b] I don't know one person who has cheated.  [/b]These are friends from when our kids were in daycare, elementary, college friends, grad school friends, childhood friends.  None of us are particularly religious either.  I wonder about this a lot.[/quote]

You definitely know more than one person who has cheated, you just don’t know that they did.  Which is fine!  It’s not really something you need to know![/quote]

^accurate.[/quote]

True. And they handled it discreetly amongst themselves so as not to negatively affect the children- or someone never got caught.  [/quote]

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