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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genuine disappointment with married life and/or kids. I think a lot of people are not well suited to being parents and don’t realize this until they are parents.

I guess I don't understand this if you come from a functioning household. I get small issues flaring up, but it's not like you didn't have firsthand experience with this way of living.[/quote]

Really?  Do you really think being a kid gives you a solid understanding of what being a parent is really like?  Were you that attuned to your parents’ mental state growing up?  I honestly don’t think a lot of people are that self-aware of what they want or don’t want or we wouldn’t have so many people getting divorced to begin with.  And there are a lot of people who grow up on idyllic circumstances and just become spoiled and selfish adults.  [/quote]

Yes I was and thought others were too. I thought I was signing up to be married to someone I would try to collaborate with and love every day and spend the majority of time working to help them and myself and our children and also make sure we had fun together too. I knew I'd have to shoulder at least half of the load. I was asked to marry people who wanted to have five or more kids. I thought long and hard about what that life would be like. I was taught marriage was for life so why wouldn't I have done a lot of self reflection on what I wanted and could handle?[/quote]

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