Divorces

[DianaB]

What I meant by saying that divorce is contagious is that if I'm best friends with someone and she and her husband are having problems and she's complaining about her marriage then I'm likely to complain about my marriage too. It makes me look at my marriage differently. I've know women who were good friends that have gotten divorced about the same time.

I didn't mean that as friends we should avoid people who are getting a divorce. We do have to safe guard our marriages so we don't join in and think that we're unhappy too.

Val, I'm sorry that your friends didn't support you during that time. Please don't think that I was telling people to avoid those that are going through divorces because that isn't what I meant at all.

[Tiramisu]

Do you think TV, movies, and/or talk shows have anything to do marriage decline? I just feel that some people put more effort into shafting their spouse in a divorce than they did in the marriage. Terry did and does most of the caretaking of the boys and Heather just wants to spend the money. Her latest thing on stalling the divorce is that she wants him to pay her medical insurance. She's keeping him on the string as long as she can because he's paying her house rent ($1800) until the divorce is final.

[Janet]

I don't know Sandy if it has helped with the decline, but I think it makes everyone think it's so easy with no one getting hurt...and that's bull.