Quote: I don't think anyone can be truly happy at the expense of others either....there isn't enough booze on earth to keep that guilt numbed....you can't go and throw others feelings around and then expect that you are going to find your happiness under the covers of anothers bed
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That is very interesting. Do you have links to any of these studies? I think it would be good for others, myself included, to read over all that.
I agree that divorce is more damaging to the kids that people think.
What you said about "staying for the kids" struck me though.
Quote: According to one of the largest studies on divorce (it was a good-sized population of kids followed over a 25 year period -- unfortunately I can't think of the name of the book right now... it might be "A Case Against Divorce"???), the kids didn't always realize their parents had a loveless marriage (at least not until early adulthood). It was determined that the stability and security offered by these marriages was still more beneficial then divorce.
Hell...if that is true I will sleep on the couch for the next 18 years!
