I'm not sure that the teenage analogy actually fits a MLCer. Your children will always be your children. No way to change that. Your spouse however does not have that qualification. Your children do not have the ability to betray you as deeply as your spouse. Your children will actually grow up to understand that the things you did were for them.
Why do people quit two years into this? Maybe that's how long it takes for the love bond to be truly destroyed.
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