To the Mods (Tia),

You censured a link I posted, claiming it was advertising. It wasn't. It was a link to an article in the UK's Daily Mail newspaper. While it's true that many newspaper websites have sidebar advertising in order to offset costs, it doesn't turn all their content into advertising.

The article I posted was written by a woman who filed for divorce 7 years ago. She had since come to realize that divorce seemed like an easy fix but it wasn't, that she'd never taken a full account of how much the split would mean, and that she could never truly move past it.

I posted it because, for people like me who are recently divorced, it seemed to offer support through its sub-text of saying, "Hey, you aren't being a doormat by trying to save your marriage." It offered the viewpoint of the WAW 7 years out, a WAW who had finally come to recognize the gravity of the choice she'd made.

It saddens me that the link to this article was censured - primarily because I thought it was a good article but, perhaps more importantly, by labeling it as advertising it's clear you didn't bother to examine the link before censuring it. If we are unable to post links to articles from the world's trusted newspaper websites, then does that mean we're limited to posting only goofy youtube links?

lodo


Divorced: 10/26/08