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[quote=Anonymous]My DH and I had a fairly high conflict marriage for years and I certainly would have divorced him had we not had kids or maybe if we had a lot more money. Splitting up into two households was not economically feasible at the time without a serious downgrading of the kids’ lifestyles and we still would have been yoked together by parenthood and had to deal with each other so divorce did not seem to solve a lot.

More lately—kids in high school/college—I had a long think about how I want to spend my remaining years. I can totally see getting divorced at this point. But I decided instead to stay and plan to live out our years together. We could now afford two households but are still better off economically togethe. We get along much much better than we used to, we support each other with stuff like walking the dog and doing errands when the other one is sick or super busy, doing half of the household chores.  We are pretty good companions for a certain number of things.  The empty nest is less empty with someone to eat dinner with, watch a movie with, etc. And we still have a homebase that’s fun for the kids to come home to for holidays and summers.

Overall, seems worth staying together in a relationship of companionship and mutual support. And yes, we still have sex sometimes.[/quote]

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