If your parents are still together, that is wonderful!
I was 24 when my parents divorced, but I feel like I knew my whole life that they would eventually split up. It still hurt, but I wasn't exactly shocked.
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My parents are still together but my husband was 8 when his parents split.
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I was 2. I don't even remember them being together!
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I was 3.
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Less than a year old.
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My parents separated when I was 3, they got divorced when I was 17
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I was 18.
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I was 8, but they'd been off and on separated most of my life.
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3 months. I was an "oops" when they were already separating. The divorce was final soon after I was born.
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I was 2 aswell... Don't remember them together...it makes me sad.
Yet they are two totally different people... can't even imagine them together. -
18. It sucked. 15 years later I think I'm still mad at them.
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Wow a lot of people's parents divorced early on. I always knew my parents stayed together "for the kids" which I always thought was ridiculous. If my parents hadn't waited until I was 24 to split, they probably could have found other partners and led happier lives. Although now that I have a child, I can see how they wanted to keep the family together.
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I was 5. Then my dad and stepmom (who I consider a parent as well as my stepdad) just finalized their divorce last month.
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9
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6 and it was a nightmare.
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@delight: mine separated when I was 22 and divorced when I was 25. They stayed together 'for the kids' despite having fought constantly since I was in middle school. It was horrible... I wish they had separated a decade ago (and my dad agreed) because it was such a tense, angry environment. My dad is now happy and remarried but it's so strange to have stepsiblings at 26...
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They divorced before I turned one.
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19, separated. 24 divorced.
@delight: me too, I asked my mom all the time after my brother was born (at 7) when they were going to split up. They didn't have a loving relationship at all.
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@Bookish: @Mrs. Lemon-Lime: sounds like we all had similar situations! My mom was so obviously unhappy in her marriage to my dad, I just don't get how she could have stayed with him. It's not any better for the children who can see and feel all the tension. I do understand wanting to keep a family together, and I would do anything to keep a family together. At some point you just have to call it quits though.
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I was around 2 I believe. I of course don't remember them ever being together.
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23. They should have divorced a long, long time ago. Dad finally took the verbal abuse one step too far. I had actually given up hope that they would ever separate; my brother pushed my mom into it.
I had an okay childhood but as dad's bipolar-ness continued to deteriorate we all had a pretty sucky time of it from about age 10 on. I no longer speak with him.
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20. I wish they had divorced when they first separated when I was 10.
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@delight: My parents stayed together for us and I, too, think that was the worst decision they ever made. The constant tension and the fights were not a good environment to grow up in.
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I was 12. They stayed together "for the kids" and it was terrible. I was so glad when they finally divorced.
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@StrawberryBee: my parents divorce was for similar reasons. My dad is also bi-polar. My brother and I also encouraged mom to finally lead her own life. I still have a good relationship with my dad though.
@MrsKoala: yeah I don't know how putting on the facade of a happy family is the best option,
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6
I don't really remember it -
11 or 12? I honestly can't remember.
My parents had basically the easiest divorce ever, so it wasn't a big deal.
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With my biological dad? 9. With my step-dad who I considered to be my dad? 19.
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5. Then mom left verbally abusive stepdad (I was SO happy) when I was 13. She's currently separated from cheating, lying, jerk of a husband, but won't divorce unless he is the one to do it (religious reasons). Dad is happily remarried since I was around 11. I don't feel bad about parents divorcing, but I still struggle a little with resenting my mom moving us two states away from my dad when I was 10, so we could be closer to the verbally abusive husband's dying mother. She should have left him then, not waited until we were hundreds of miles from family and had to move again to get away.
DH's parents, he was also 5, with a second divorce by his mom at around 10, she's currently happily remarried, and his dad remarried for the first time the same year we got married (4 years ago), and is happy.
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DH was 31!
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I was 15. When you throw in the ridiculous teenage hormones/angst of that age, it pretty much felt like the world was ending.
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I was 23. I knew they weren't happy but I was shocked at how classless my mother acted. She cheated on my Dad while he was in the hospital recovering from emergency surgery with one of their employees! (they ran a business together). Fortunately he has since remarried a terrific woman who I am very happy to have in my life.
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They divorced this year...I am 33. They had been to counseling many times over the years, but they both realized they are different and grew apart. I would've never predicted they'd actually pull the trigger and get divorced, but I am glad to say they both are happier now.
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I was 1. Apparently I was a last attempt at fixing their marriage and it didn't work out.
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@StrawberryBee: @delight: My mom is an undiagnosed bi-polar, so I can completely relate.
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18
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25 (3 years ago) my mom is remarried and my dad is dating but is still pretty bitter about the whole thing...
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I was 3. DH was 12, I think.
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29 (last year). Sigh. Not a good situation. And my DH's parents split up when he was 24. Blah to late life separations.
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@delight: I know it depends on the case but I wish mine has stayed together. When people say they wished theirs had split I just think... what if the new situation was worse? That is what happened to me!
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