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Divorce in 2013. Does an intact family help the children?
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 592806" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>MWM, I can appreciate where you're coming from. People who are nasty to each other in marriage are going to be nasty to each other in divorce. </p><p></p><p>For example, e<em>veryone</em> who knows my mom says that she stays with my dad (63 years now) because "that's just the way that they did it then". <em>Baloney! </em>Her mother was married 3 times, and mom had an out of wedlock much older sister who was raised as a cousin by her older aunt. My father picks on her as mercilessly as he picked on us. We had clothes and food and sometimes things were good, but I don't think I <em>ever </em>felt loved or special, and that's something that every child should have. All the parenting I learned was how to nitpick on my children, and how to worry. If they had been apart, we would have been dirt poor to boot. I'll never know if we would have been happier. She just never would leave him, and she never would stand up for herself or her children. Someone just has to be an adult and look out for the better part of life. Together or apart, I don't know if it matters. I know my dad was not ever going to change because as he said every time someone was miserable "it's your problem, because there's nothing wrong with <em>me."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 592806, member: 99"] MWM, I can appreciate where you're coming from. People who are nasty to each other in marriage are going to be nasty to each other in divorce. For example, e[I]veryone[/I] who knows my mom says that she stays with my dad (63 years now) because "that's just the way that they did it then". [I]Baloney! [/I]Her mother was married 3 times, and mom had an out of wedlock much older sister who was raised as a cousin by her older aunt. My father picks on her as mercilessly as he picked on us. We had clothes and food and sometimes things were good, but I don't think I [I]ever [/I]felt loved or special, and that's something that every child should have. All the parenting I learned was how to nitpick on my children, and how to worry. If they had been apart, we would have been dirt poor to boot. I'll never know if we would have been happier. She just never would leave him, and she never would stand up for herself or her children. Someone just has to be an adult and look out for the better part of life. Together or apart, I don't know if it matters. I know my dad was not ever going to change because as he said every time someone was miserable "it's your problem, because there's nothing wrong with [I]me."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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