Familes that are still together (3 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Wife and I have been married coming up on 26 years this summer. My parents still married after 50+ years. Wife's parents were married until her dad passed away 23 years ago and her mom never remarried.

It's weird though because all of my aunts and uncles married multiple times. Almost all of my cousins are still on their first marriage though, which is a little surprising.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Writers hack: get your story in before ‘married for decades to my 8th grade international pen pal’
Hard to top that one

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Louisiana Republican Party considers backing elimination of no-fault divorce​

Who agrees with this? Should i be able to get a divorce if I no longer love my wife or if we have become incompatible? Should people be forced to stay in unhappy marriages? To me this is one of those things that targets the lower income, because we all know if you have the money, this kind of thing doesn't pertain to you.

GOP members are targeting no-fault divorce because they believe it has weakened of the institution of marriage.

“Louisiana marriage laws have destroyed the institute of marriage over the past thirty to fifty years,” an initial draft of James’ resolution reads. “The destruction of marriage has resulted in widespread child poverty in Louisiana.”

Without a no-fault divorce option, civil courts would be burdened with more fault-based divorce hearings and couples who agreed to split would be forced to make “ugly allegations” in order to dissolve their marriages, Alexander said.

I am glad there is pushback on this, hopefully it dies without being brought back.

Louisiana Republican Party considers backing elimination of no-fault divorce

The Republican Party of Louisiana is debating whether to recommend the elimination of no-fault divorce, a change that would make it more difficult for couples to dissolve their marriages if enacted.

www.wwno.org

 

[Devildog]

American Taliban.

 

[brandon8283]

My family meets all this criteria with a couple of caveats.

My wife and I have been married for 17 years. My parents have been married for 41 years, but my mom had a previous marriage of about 6 months when she was a teenager that quickly ended in divorce, with no children. My wife has a stepfather, but it's because her father passed away unexpectedly at 45 years old. She remarried a couple of years later and has remained married since.

For all intents and purposes, our families have been completely stable for my daughter's entire life.

 

[brandon8283]

Writers hack: get your story in before ‘married for decades to my 8th grade international pen pal’
Hard to top that one

I married the girl I met in 8th grade band - we started dating my senior year of high school and we've been married 17 years.

Yea, nevermind not as cool as international pen pal.

 

[MarylandWHODAT]

Been married for 25 years, with her for 30.

Parents are still married after 45 years although they literally cannot stand each other and stay together for the principle. They are absolutely miserable together. This is their second marriage and in my opinion, they should have ended it years ago but that's for another day.

Spouses parents were married until he passed.

 

[Ken-Bob]

My parents divorced after about 25 years and should have done so much earlier. My wife and I just celebrated 29 years with almost no disagreements, much less the fights that I experienced as a kid.

 

[Nisey55]

Happily married for 32 years, 2nd marriage for us both. Our first spouses were unfaithful to us. I believe it has had a big influence on our marriage, we are very devoted to one another.
Most of the divorced couples I know married because she was pregnant.
I know many succeed but it seems like a bad reason to get married, probably because of a lack of maturity (as in getting pregnant unintentionally) they simply don't love each other enough and marrying too young.
This was the case for my husband. I also think she got pregnant on purpose and to put the icing on the cake decided to cheat. Lovely woman.
But all of his pain brought great joy to us. We raised his daughter from age 9,
she is happily married with 2 children. I consider her a gift from God, turns out I couldn't have children of my own.
IMO don't stay in a bad marriage if it can be helped.

 

[Goatman Saint]

My in-laws will be 51 years in December, wife and I will be 32 in July and tomorrow would be my parents 56 if they were still alive. Throw in my brother at 26, and my wife’s brother at 20 for good measure if you like.

My parents were friends for a few years before they got married, wife and I were friends for a few years, at some point we were like are we dating?, and my in-laws got married in high school because my wife was conceived when they were 15/16

 

[BayouSAINTJoe]

Louisiana Republican Party considers backing elimination of no-fault divorce​

Who agrees with this? Should i be able to get a divorce if I no longer love my wife or if we have become incompatible? Should people be forced to stay in unhappy marriages? To me this is one of those things that targets the lower income, because we all know if you have the money, this kind of thing doesn't pertain to you.






I am glad there is pushback on this, hopefully it dies without being brought back.

Louisiana Republican Party considers backing elimination of no-fault divorce

The Republican Party of Louisiana is debating whether to recommend the elimination of no-fault divorce, a change that would make it more difficult for couples to dissolve their marriages if enacted.

www.wwno.org

Get rid of "Community Property" and you got yourself a supporter!

 

[tenordas]

Louisiana Republican Party considers backing elimination of no-fault divorce​

Who agrees with this? Should i be able to get a divorce if I no longer love my wife or if we have become incompatible? Should people be forced to stay in unhappy marriages? To me this is one of those things that targets the lower income, because we all know if you have the money, this kind of thing doesn't pertain to you.






I am glad there is pushback on this, hopefully it dies without being brought back.

Louisiana Republican Party considers backing elimination of no-fault divorce

The Republican Party of Louisiana is debating whether to recommend the elimination of no-fault divorce, a change that would make it more difficult for couples to dissolve their marriages if enacted.

www.wwno.org

While there is some merit in the argument, this bill is absolutely ridiculous. Also, as with most issues, legislation is not the answer. Hopefully, this bill will die a quick death, but perhaps it will bring some much needed discussion about poverty in Louisiana and discussion of some real answers to the problem instead of nonsense like this.

I would change the statement "The destruction of marriage has resulted in widespread child poverty in Louisiana," to "The destruction of marriage has contributed to widespread child poverty in Louisiana." Acting like the fragmentation of the institution of marriage is the linchpin of widespread child poverty is an overstatement at the very least. Certainly, a contributing factor (to child poverty, not overall poverty), but far from the only one (and to be honest, a lot of the problem has to do with various current legislation, both state and federal, that hinder industry and employment, which leads to poverty).
Trying to force people to act a certain way is a communist/socialist response. Is the Republican Party really trying to go the direction they're always accusing the Democratic Party of going?

Foolishness. There is only one way to change a person's life for the better, and that is to get involved in their life, personally, one on one. Providing encouragement and opportunity for success is how to combat poverty, not passing laws that will "make people act a certain way." Sweeping government legislation will fail every time because trying to put a one-size-fits-all law on people simply cannot succeed because there is no average scenario; everyone is a "special case." It's part of being human.

 

[Bayouboy]

Been married for 24 years. My parents are deceased but never divorced. My in-laws are still married. All four grandparents stayed married and never divorced. My wife and I both have siblings that split up.....and their kids suffered from it. That is probably why I'm still married today. We've had a rocky road, but both of us have worked through it for the sake of the children. Now, both kids are in college with very promising lives to live. Not saying they wouldn't have turned out as good had we split, but statistically speaking kids from divorced households tend to have more issues/problems.

The breakdown of the family unit is the biggest reason this country is going down the crapper IMO. No statistics, just a hunch.

 

[jboss]

Been married for 24 years. My parents are deceased but never divorced. My in-laws are still married. All four grandparents stayed married and never divorced. My wife and I both have siblings that split up.....and their kids suffered from it. That is probably why I'm still married today. We've had a rocky road, but both of us have worked through it for the sake of the children. Now, both kids are in college with very promising lives to live. Not saying they wouldn't have turned out as good had we split, but statistically speaking kids from divorced households tend to have more issues/problems.

The breakdown of the family unit is the biggest reason this country is going down the crapper IMO. No statistics, just a hunch.

Divorce rates have been steadily declining since 1980, now very near where they were in the early 1950's. In the US that is.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

While there is some merit in the argument, this bill is absolutely ridiculous. Also, as with most issues, legislation is not the answer. Hopefully, this bill will die a quick death, but perhaps it will bring some much needed discussion about poverty in Louisiana and discussion of some real answers to the problem instead of nonsense like this.

I would change the statement "The destruction of marriage has resulted in widespread child poverty in Louisiana," to "The destruction of marriage has contributed to widespread child poverty in Louisiana." Acting like the fragmentation of the institution of marriage is the linchpin of widespread child poverty is an overstatement at the very least. Certainly, a contributing factor (to child poverty, not overall poverty), but far from the only one (and to be honest, a lot of the problem has to do with various current legislation, both state and federal, that hinder industry and employment, which leads to poverty).
Trying to force people to act a certain way is a communist/socialist response. Is the Republican Party really trying to go the direction they're always accusing the Democratic Party of going?

Foolishness. There is only one way to change a person's life for the better, and that is to get involved in their life, personally, one on one. Providing encouragement and opportunity for success is how to combat poverty, not passing laws that will "make people act a certain way." Sweeping government legislation will fail every time because trying to put a one-size-fits-all law on people simply cannot succeed because there is no average scenario; everyone is a "special case." It's part of being human.

This is the primary answer obviously (as well as primary answer to crime, health, drugs, et al)
Fix (ie, rebalance) the economy and kill many birds with a very big stone

Obviously some grew up in houses that didn’t model successful marriages (up and down the economic spectrum), so might have some built in struggles- but limiting divorce options solves exactly zero problems