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When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

— Allison Pearson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

— Jerry O'Connell

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

— Tamar Braxton

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

— Nicole Kidman

Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.

— Peter Andre

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

— Louis de Bernieres

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

— Sadie Frost

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

— Ashley Judd

When you have kids, they are the consistent things in your life. They don't change no matter what's going on. They love you. They are more honest than anybody will be.

— Dwyane Wade

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

— Sofia Vergara

✗Opposing Perspectives

My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

— Ayelet Waldman