Are you a child of Divorce?

[WTFdivorce]

Yes

No

[midnightmoon05]

I am not.

I am divorced with 2 kids when they were 4ish/2ish. They are now 15,13.

When he wanted to end the marriage... I make sure we continue to talk often about our childrens' growth, medical health, school, mental health, friends, food they eat. Spend time with each parent on a regular basis. We had a schedule when they were younger. Now we are much more flixible based on kids school schedule. It was hard in the beginning. Kids don't want parents not together. They were sad.

Now they feel they are the luckiest kids in the world. They are focus and see us on a regular basis. sometimes my daughter struggles a bit feeling some guilt. I make sure she understands that, us both have moved on with new partners and that she too will one day, move on to have her own beautiful family and not be living with us. Its our job to raise her to be independent and live a good life for her/her future family.

How old is your child/children?

[Ms_Facesitter]

No, they are still together, but they fought so much for no reason that I moved out just for some peace.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

More or less, they were already in the final stages of their marriage when I was born, and my father filed for divorce three or four years later, despite going through moments of separation.

[Guy13]

No I am not. What does that really mean anyway?

[WTFdivorce]

Means when you were a child your parents divorced.

[Guy13]

Alright…

[RavVid]

I have to say I thought the numbers would be the other way around.

[WTFdivorce]

I did as well.

[RavVid]

Maybe the divorce hump has to wait till the kiddies are old enough to get onto GAG. A quick google suggest 1 in 2 or 1 in 4 children have divorced parents so maybe GAG folk are unusual.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Knock on wood not yet. Parents have been married for 43 years.

[Sasha0426]

I am. My parents split when I was in elementary school. I was in the sixth grade.

[WTFdivorce]

Are you still close with both of them?

[Sasha0426]

Of course ☺️

[WTFdivorce]

Awesome

[Anonymous]

I have no idea. They were still married when I lost contact with them, but that was 20 years ago.

[MCheetah]

I'm black. So...