Are your parents still together?

My parents are divorced, they stayed together until my youngest sister got married. The only way it effected me was by making me realise that staying together for the kids is not the right thing to do, , , , , ,

Mine celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary last wednesday

Pretty much WLSS. My parents were miserable for as long as I can remember - constant fighting, arguing and weeks of stoney silence. The plan was for them to remain together until my younger sister was 'old enough'. As it happened, something tipped the balance and they ended up splitting when I was 16 (sister was only 11), although they continued to live under the same roof for another 6 months until my father found a new home - INCREDIBLY uncomfortable for everyone! Consequently, I have very strong opinions on the idea of staying together for the sake of the kids, finding ways to work at a marriage and knowing when to call it a day for the sakes of everyone involved.

My parents have been married 32 years this year and OH parents, 33 this year. A lot of my friends parents, as I was growing up were divorcing and it soon became that it was more 'rare' for my generation to have parents together. We shall be celebrating our parents achievement at sticking at it ( or putting up with it as my dad likes to say) at our wedding, displaying a few photographs from their wedding day.

My parents celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary in March and my OHs parents are still together.

My friends parents are still together too, I don't really know a lot of people that have parents that have divorced or separated.

My parents have been married 31 years next month. It is the second marriage for both of them, as they both married other people very young, but no children involved.

My 3 best friends parents are all divorced, and H is (obviously!) divorced from the mother of my stepdaughter.

My parents have been together around 30 years

OH's parents split when he was 3 and he was bought up by his mum.

I don't think it's affected either of us in a particular way as we both appear to have the same idea about relationships and marriage. I thought it might have put him off marriage (as his parents' break-up was messy) but it doesn't seem to have done so!

My parents have been together for 44 years and have been married for 35 or 36 years (I can never remember if their wedding was 1976 or 1975). They still seem to be really happy and in love. They enjoy each others company and do lots of stuff together.

Most of my close friends' parents are still together too. H's parents are divorced (his mum is on her 3rd marriage and his dad on his 2nd) and H is twice divorced himself.

Mine are still together after 35 years of marriage. OH's Dad left the family when OH was about 15 and he hasn't seen him since.

My mum and dad are still together as are OH's parents,pretty unusual these days i think.

Mine are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary next year, H's are due to celebrate their 37th anniversary later this year.

Mine are and have been for 29 years...mummy was pregnant with me when they got married ( i always love to say i was at their wedding lol)

Mine are celebrating their 43rd this year, H's are celebrating 46 this year,

both me and H are divorced and this is our 2nd marriage

My parents split when I was 10, Mr C's when he was 6.

All are now remarried apart from the MIL...

Mine were divorced in 1992 after 12 years of marriage. I was 10, my sister 9 and my brother 5. It came out of the blue at the time as they never argued, ever. In fact I dont really remember them speaking at all, which was obviously the problem.

It did affect me in the beginning because I was the oldest I became the messenger between the two of them and it wasnt very nice; in fact it was terrible. We all went to live with my dad and as he worked full time; from the age of 11 I used to start dinner and look after my siblings. Was not a fun time.

They are pefectly civil to each other now though.

OH's parents split when he was 3 months. He saw his dad regularly until he was 13 but then all contact stopped. OH still doesnt know why - his dad passed away 4 years ago so he will never know now.

Up until my dad passed away earlier this year, my parents were still married. His funeral was on what would have been their 28th wedding anniversary. I don't recall any blazing rows or anything ever, minor disagreements but that's all. I think they were a great example of a good marriage and I hope mine turns out half as well!

Same with my parents.

In fact they are better friends now, turns out they both played for the other team!

Nope mine split up when I was 10 when my dad left my mum for another woman. He totally abandoned me and my siblings and I didn't speak to him for years. So yes, it deeply affected me. Your dad is meant go be the one man you can rely on isn't he? It's taken me years to get over what he did and I've finally stopped craving his love, now that I have my OH. It makes me feel very sad really but it was his choice.