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WTH is in the water? So many friends splitting up.

AnnapolisLariAnnapolisLari member
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I got a call today from one of my old college buddies. He and his wife are splitting up after 8 years of marriage.

This is on top of the other college buddy whose wife is leaving after 15 years. The college friend, father of 8 year old triplets whose FB status is suddenly 'single' again. And the high school friend whose wife decided that she was a lesbian, and left after 10 years of married life.

These are all really nice guys, especially the high school friend. Not out carousing with the guys every night, pay all their bills on time, etc. There are kids involved in every one of these relationships.

I am divorced once myself, so I ain't judging. It's just that I found out about all of them in the last 8 weeks, so I am sad.

AKA KnittyB*tch
DS - December 2006
DD - December 2008

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Re: WTH is in the water? So many friends splitting up.

  • knmommyknmommy
    who knows.  One of my friends got divorced last year, my BFF left her H, my BIL just got divorced and my brother just filed for divorce after 13 years.  All in the last year. 
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  • gibsgibs
    maybe being in a long-term monogamous relationship with a nice, boring guy and having kids underfoot and a mortage to pay drives people so batshit crazy that they just can't take it anymore?
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  • AnnapolisLariAnnapolisLari member

    imagegibs:
    maybe being in a long-term monogamous relationship with a nice, boring guy and having kids underfoot and a mortage to pay drives people so batshit crazy that they just can't take it anymore?

    But you don't have to worry about that down in your basement, with Ma to make you sammiches, do you, gibbles?

    AKA KnittyB*tch
    DS - December 2006
    DD - December 2008

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  • MelandJeffMelandJeff

    imagegibs:
    maybe being in a long-term monogamous relationship with a nice, boring guy and having kids underfoot and a mortage to pay drives people so batshit crazy that they just can't take it anymore?

    Now that you put it that way, FFS, I may file for the big D myself!

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  • shopgirl78shopgirl78 member
    I have three friends going through a divorce now.  One found her husband in their bed with his cousin's wife...huh! 

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  • stacynikkistacynikki member
    We have friends on the verge of divorce and one that just got divorced recently.  Not so shocked about the ones that already divorced but my heart is breaking for the ones that are basically done. 
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  • AnnapolisLariAnnapolisLari member

    imageshopgirl78:
    I have three friends going through a divorce now.  One found her husband in their bed with his cousin's wife...huh! 

    Yeah, I flat out asked them if they had been screwing around on their wives. I pull no punches like that, and none of them had even been texting other women (ha!! ), which is what I expected.

    Women b1tch when their husbands spend all their time out with the guys , aren't involved with the kids and are financially irresponsible-- so now they have guys who aren't doing that, and it's an excuse to leave, too? Geez. My heart is breaking for my friends.

    AKA KnittyB*tch
    DS - December 2006
    DD - December 2008

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  • ridesbuttonsridesbuttons member

    MId life crisis.  Predictable.

    Sad.

    promised myself I'd retire when I turned gold, and yet here I am
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  • jlw2505jlw2505 member
    It is always sad - I would say with my friends I have a nice mix.  There are a few couples that have been together since HS (one since 7th grade) that are still happily married 20 some years later (give or take).  I have a handful of friends that married right after college so early 20's that have divorced and some are remarried and some not.  What surprised me most, growing up in the midwest where people tend to get married younger is that so many of my friends got married in their late 20/s'early 30's.  and now as we are all getting close to 40, so many of us have young kids.  My brother got divorced about a year and a half ago after 21 years of marriage.
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