Friends of mine had their divorce recently. I feel the pain too.

Philippines
November 29, 2009 7:17am CST
The husband and the wife are both my friends and they just broke up recently. We saw them as a happy family and it really didn’t come into our minds that someday they will have their separate ways. They have bowed to be together and that only death can separate them but it is not possible anymore. I personally believe that entering into marriage isn’t just like planning for a few hours in a coffee shop. It doesn’t work. Marriage is a commitment, and before you enter into one, make sure that that is in fact the person you see yourself spending the rest of your life with. What’s your side on this?
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
29 Nov 09
It's really sad when people divorce. It's even sad to see a boyfriend/girlfriend who's really close to each other only to separate. How long have they been together? Isn't there any other way? Can't they try to fix their marriage first before quitting by divorce? Oh, it's really sad. It's true that marriage isn't something one can really plan out at all. Yes, you'd have an ideal, but times are tough, you can't really predict the future. Anyhow. It's their choice. I'm just hoping they don't have kids who'd have to endure the breakup.
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• Philippines
30 Nov 09
yes they have two kids and that's what we're worried about too. the next issue there will be the kids custody. it would have been better if they have no kids who will suffer more about the break up. they're still really kids.
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@happy2512 (1266)
• Philippines
30 Nov 09
Yes you are right planning to get married is not for a few hours over the coffee shop. I prefer long engagement in order to determine whether the person I want to marry is the person I want to spend my whole life with if ever I am not sure about it I will just end the relationship & look for somebody else whom I can say happy for the rest of my life. I will not accept proposal if I am not so sure about spending my entire life with that person. We cannot rush in all things we have to think it a trillion times before making our final decision for regret will always be in the end. Better be sure than feel sorry for our self.
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
29 Nov 09
I am sad that one more family has been shattered by divorce. It is just another thing that should never happen and it affects all of society. To be sure, marriage is a commitment of the most serious kind. It is a covenant instituted by and with God and , as such , is a lifelong union. Unfortunately, we have been "educated" by Hollywood, politicians, even our schools, that a "commitment" may be easily broken. It is more than shortsighted. According to statistics, then, over half of the population is not fit to live with. In truth, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as when we do not live up to our commitments, or try to understand the nature and purpose of marriage as designed by God, we promulgate bad character qualities in ourselves and others. Thinking, as we arrogantly do, that we know better than God, we take the easy way out, institute an unconstitutional ex post facto "law" called "no fault" and remove the state's mandate of protecting the family. Those who were foolish enough to believe that making it easier to walk away from marriage and family responsibility have succeeded only in making things worse. Generations of angry children, lacking in guidance and character development become angry parents, and it's "all about them" and their desires and expectations. They don't bother to learn about the nature and design of the marriage covenant before jumping in for the wrong reasons. Then they want a bailout. Making divorce, thus broken families, easier has only resulted in grievous loss and heartache to millions of children, increased crime, poverty, gangs, terrible anger, more parents harming and kidnapping their own children. It is like cutting a child in half. Yet, we think we're so sophisticated, cause Hollywood says so! Rubbish. Our government knew this would be the result in the 60's and 70's when Congressional Hearings were held on Broken Families. But, instead of developing ways to educate and keep families together, they did the usual "political" money and influence exchange with the Gay and Lesbian Coalition and National Organization of Woman as lobbyists intent on promulgating divorce. And so, just another step in the moral decline of a once great nation. As any student of history knows, strong families make a strong nation. Russia knew it when they began exporting the "no-fault" propaganda to gullible Americans. And now, we are just beginning to be aware of just how much infiltration of socialist, communist, radical ideology exists in our once free nation at all levels of government.
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• Indonesia
30 Nov 09
hai flagella we know that we can predict our future, that's why when people likes your friends cannnot know what happend to their marriage. We just see from outside they looks like happy family but we dont knw what really happend to their marriage inside. now, we just be a good friends to them, and give them spirits for good
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@rika999 (104)
• India
30 Nov 09
everyone is god of his own destiny... whatever your friends have done .. definitely their decision will be a matured one. let them solve their problem of their own.. you have nothing to worry about ... so do not dishearten yourselves and relax.
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@hhmfw0 (44)
• China
30 Nov 09
More and more family separate in modern society .It is sad. I also think marriage is holy and inviolable ,when you decide to enter into ,you should maintain the relationship between you couple.Don't quarrel easily ,just try your best to solve the problem arised. Sure,it is easy to talk here but hard to do in real life
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• Philippines
30 Nov 09
Hello there flagella, there's no possible out come or prediction when two sexes become one and love each other. sometimes we don't expect people with different views and habits can be together for a long time, or vice versa. falling inlove has always been a risk for both parties, meaning, sharing of each other's lives and compromising to make the relationship work. time flies by but mybe it's because of the trend now, you don't want and like you seperate, you don't see that in the old days often.. we only hope that some day these two would find happiness in some one elses arms.
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