WAW Hired a Divorce Coach (Cont11.)

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We aren't talking about a woman that was cheated on or abused here.

This is the million dollar statement that puts most LBH here. This was the bar many, many years ago. The stakes have change and unfortunately no one is telling the players that the game has changed. Nothing in school, nothing in college most don't find out until it's too late. You get married you get a marriage license. Heck now when you get a job you get a couple page long job description on what is expect of you. Esther Perel has a great podcast on what is expected out of a mate in today's world. Everything that an entire village use to provide. The institution of marriage is an outdated practice that will IMO eventually die out as it is no longer needed for survival.

LH makes a great point here.

There probably was a time decades ago when even in the cases of physical abuse, drug abuse, serial infidelity...etc. society still frowned upon divorce and said to accept the circumstances and keep it quite, and even made it difficult or impossible to get a divorce. That was wrong. There needs to be some standard for walking away.

However, the pendulum has swung way too far in the other direction, where it's very acceptable and not even really taboo anymore to break vows and split up families simply because one person isn't happy for awhile and wants to seek out the possibilities of greener pastures, regardless of their commitments to their spouse and kids. Under these circumstances it certainly seems like the institution has lost meaning and may not last.