I think these "they'll be fine" folks equate survive with "thrive," and I find that to be problematic in the extreme. Even folks who "survived" can't know that they've thrived because they don't know what their lives would have been like otherwise.
They might well be living their "best lives" (to use a bit of Oprah-ese), but it's their best life given the fact of divorce, which is a different thing altogether.
I completely agree, Smiley. I see the wear and tear that separation is taking on my kids. D17 is an emotional time bomb--her anger barely contained and she is on prozac--and D9 is on zoloft and struggling big time, too, with slipping into depressions on a regular basis.
Living God's blessings with grace and dignity~ SMW
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Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. I Corinthians 13:7
