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Are your parents divorced?

  1. matador84

    papaya / 10560 posts

    Yes divorced after 20 yearssss.

  2. PurplePumps

    pomegranate / 3809 posts

    Nope. My parents have been married 30+ years. I actually don't know anyone on my side of the family that have divorced. DH's sister and his BIL are the only people I know of in the family that have been divorced.

  3. Anagram

    eggplant / 11716 posts

    My parents were together for 33 years before my dad passed away. They had a very happy marriage...I never saw them fight even once. Not even a cross word with each other! (which, in a way, gave me a wrong impression of a good marriage. For a long time, I thought if a couple disagreed AT ALL, then it meant it wasn't meant to be).

    DH's parents are still happily married, too. And they were a semi-arranged marriage.

    However, some of my siblings have been divorced. The ones who have divorced all got married super early----ages 18-20. And they all stayed married for 8-10 years before divorcing. In each of those cases, when they grew up, they found out they had very little in common.

    I didn't get hitched till I was 32, so I don't see that in my future at all.

  4. MrsH

    honeydew / 7667 posts

    My parents had been married 34 years before my dad passed.

  5. Tidybee

    nectarine / 2834 posts

    my parents have been married for 30 years but IMO not happily at all. They are fighting constantly and usually getting me and my siblings involved. it can be super stressful. DH's parents are still married (40 years) and the complete opposite. I've never seen them anything but happy.

  6. HLK208

    pineapple / 12234 posts

    No, married 35. But DH's mom has been divorced twice and his dad once (from his mom).

  7. Penny Lane

    nectarine / 2163 posts

    Yeah, divorced when I was 9, but separated for 2 years before that (legally had to before they could officially divorce). I don't have many memories of them being together, but the ones I do have... they're fighting. I think the big reason for the separation was that my Dad decided he didn't want to do "this" (parenting) anymore. Started having a few affairs etc etc. I think he wanted my Mum to have an abortion when he found out she was pregnant with my youngest brother just before he left.

    Big dramas. Definitely for the better.

    Neither are remarried, but Dad lives with his girlfriend and her young kids.

    DH's parents are still together, but they don't seem the happiest. They don't talk much. At all.

  8. Mrs D

    grapefruit / 4545 posts

    My parents decided to get divorced on their 25th wedding anniversary - lovely. I am undecided on if I think it was best. My dad would remarry my mom in a heartbeat I think - but my mom has remarried a man who has many of the same bad qualities she claimed to be leaving in my dad - weird.

    DH's parents are still married after 30+ years.

  9. marionberry

    pomelo / 5041 posts

    My parents divorced when I was four. My dad remarried soon after and him and my stepmom have been married almost 22 years. My mom remarried when I was 9 but divorced my former stepdad when I was 21. She is now on her third marriage.

    DH's parents were together until his mom died. DH himself is on his third marriage with me, i.e. divorced twice already.

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