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Totally off-topic, random thread: re: divorced/separated parents getting back together

catem07catem07 member
edited November 2016 in April 2017 Moms
I'm watching season 2 of Gilmore Girls, and I guess Lorelai and Christopher are at the beginning of (one of their many?) reconciliations. And I just read a book where parents who were separated for a year and were on the verge of divorce got back together. I'm sure there are other examples from literature, TV, and movies.

So my question is, does this happen in real life? Has it happened to you, or your parents, or your siblings, or anyone you know? Having separating/divorcing parents is such a fraught situation for kids, and having the specter or the reality of parents getting back together makes it even more complicated. Just curious about real life situations. 

ETA: I don't mean any judgment by that penultimate sentence. It's great if families can work things out and be together (though as a child of divorced parents I am very against "staying together for the kids.")
DD #1: April 2017
DD #2: May 2020
Baby #3: EDD May 2023; MC October 2022

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Re: Totally off-topic, random thread: re: divorced/separated parents getting back together

  • allybadryallybadry member
    My brother and his wife separated for about 10 or 11 months when my nephew was quite young (1 or 2). They reconciled and its been 4 years since...
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  • MWoodsideMWoodside member
    Yes. I've been with DH since we were 16 and his parents were in the midst of a very ugly divorce. Fast forward to 2009 they began to date again. They lived together from 2011 until last month when my MIL moved out. 

    DD1 born 5/24/10.

    Missed M/C at 14 wks Feb 2012.

    DD2 born 5/14/13.

    Missed M/C at 9 wks July 2015.

    Expecting someone new 4/17/17.
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  • herewegrowherewegrow member
    edited November 2016
    My parents got KU with my brother and married in high school and  divorced 7 years later, before I was born. They obviously got back together but never officially remarried. They seperated briefly at least twice while I was growing up and (so far) permanently split after my mom had an affair when I was a senior in college. 

    ETA: They set a terrible example for marriage and my mom blamed us as the reason she was so miserable for so long. I'm all for trying to work things out but my childhood is tainted by the things she said when they finally ended things. She's very emotionally immature and selfish, so I try to keep that in mind. 
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  • KirstinH88KirstinH88 member
    Well DH broke up and got back together with his ex (baby mama) MANY times. But obviously that didn't work out...
    Me: 29 DH: 33
    Married: 5/30/2013
    DSS #1: 5/25/2007
    DSS #2: 1/22/2011
    DS #3: 7/8/2012
    BFP: 3/14/2016 ~ MC: 3/19/2016
    DS #4: 4/21/17
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  • EkzerrEkzerr member
    DHs parents separated and got back together about 5 times from when I met them in 2008 until they officially divorced in 2013...and it had been going on since he was a child.

    My aunt and uncle separated for a short amount of time when I was around 12 but they got back together and it's like it never happened! Seems weird to me to think of that short period of time 
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  • mrsstuessymrsstuessy member
    edited November 2016
    My great aunt and uncle (who I used to be very close to, more like grandparents) were separated for about 3 years while my uncle had an affair and actually lived with another woman for over a year of that time. My aunt didn't feel like she should divorce him legally. But they lived totally separate lives. It was so sad for me, as a kid. They were older, with adult children and young grandkids, so I'm not sure if this is what you were asking for. Eventually he sort of came to his senses and left that woman and went back to my aunt. They have now been together for about 17 years since then and it is easy to forget it ever happened. Everything is just like normal. 

    Me: 28 year old SAHM/Birth Doula
    DH: 30 year old pneumatic electrical engineer 
    Married: October 8, 2011
    DD1: September 24, 2013
    BFP: June 25, 2016 and MC: July 3, 2016
    DD2: April 16, 2017
    BFP: November 30, 2018 EDD: August 14, 2019
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