For years I believed my parents stayed together because of me. When I was little they sometimes talked about divorce…
But I think now that their initial passionate love has turned into a platonic one, and a true friendship has developed instead. In recent years they have always been nice to each other.
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both of my parents have serious mental issues. my father is sza and my mother is bipolar with psychotic features. neither were medicated when I was younger so home life was chaotic and hectic. my brother also has bipolar with psychotic features so we all are mentally ill.
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Everybody’s story here makes me want to tell my story haha I probably shouldn’t say this but I’m actually jealous of some of you (but in a good way 
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My parents divorced when i was 5. It broke my heart. i started going downhill ever since.
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My parent were happily married for a good while, but then things fell off the rails, and they got divorced.
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Everything is fine with my parents, I just wish they were more persistent with their fertility
treatments, but now it’s too late.
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I already talked often about that, but I had disfunctional parents. They were violent and cruel with me and so they were with each others. I never saw my parents loving each others at all. They divorced while I was 7 and I don’t understand at all why they married because problems appears as soon as during the honeymoon. 
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Well if they didn’t married together, I would not be alive but in the same time, I can’t say that they helped me to find happiness in life. I even think that they triggered my mental illness. If I had good parents, maybe I would have genes for mental illness but it is possible that the mental illness would never have been triggered.
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Awwww 
but you seem to be doing well now
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I don’t want to be complaining so much because when I compare with some of you, I know that I have been more lucky than many because I became healthy very quick as soon as I began the medication and I’m very functional for a mentally sick person.
But still I have many psychological problems that prevent me to be really happy, and still I am lonely and I have no friends and no girlfriend.
But I try to be happy with what I have and I forgive me for what I cannot have and I understand that it’s not easy for me as it could be compared to really healthy persons.
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I understand
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Yes my parents are very happy together. Been married for 50 years so far. 
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My parents are so weird I find it surprising they found each other. They are so weird that their weirdness compliments each others. Don’t get me wrong, I am weird too. But we are opposites. I am a completely different type of weird. I need to find someone to compliment my weirdness or else it’ll never work as well as my parents.
My sister is weird too.
My whole family is dang weird!!
I say to my sister “I wonder if they have all 50 states license plates up on the wall”. and she starts looking for them in order 'Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas" and by the time she can get to Delaware I have counted that there are 46 license plates on the wall so there must not be all 50 states… She is weird. But she enjoys being weird. Her husband goes along with her weirdness but I don’t think he’s as weird as she is…
But my parents are both oblivious and conservative and just offbeat a little bit but they beat to a similar drum as each other.
I’m not sure how to describe my weirdness, but I know I am weird as well. But definitely different from my parents in terms of weird.
I think my mom sometimes takes things for granted. She got very lucky in life. She got lucky to find my dad when and where she did. She got lucky to have children…when she did. She got lucky to not be in an abusive relationship at all. She got lucky that my dad got lucky financially the last 10 years. She’s gotten very lucky. She’s not all that grateful for someone who started off poor and made it to a very comfortable lifestyle. I mean she is grateful, but she doesn’t IMAGINE it any other way. I guess she’s very into Jesus and stuff and sees her successes as absolute and no luck involved and just God giving her gifts. But I see it differently than her. I like to look at my good things and then look at where it could be if my predicament was different.
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My mon and sperm donor never married. He went several states away to avoid child support. My mom’s marriage all eventually became terrible.
55 years together and hated each other
The dating pool around some areas is just filled with weirdos, nuts, predators or worse. So, some of the older ones do stay in relationships that are roommates to keep the family situation stable and need two incomes to support it all. Others have to keep saying ‘I don’t believe in divorce’ and even plain looking women get harassed by the community’s troubled…
Met Lesbian married to gay guy…Need not say anything more about tough area. Two people kept the problems away better…Area around here even screws some of the single women out of good employment, no unemployment paid. Over and over some employers pull this and get away with it.
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