That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.
When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.
It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.