SC 27 - Staying In A Dead Marriage For The Kids
The Jayson Gaddis Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.7 • 999 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This is a pretty charged issue. On the one hand, some people really believe divorce is one of the major culprits to kid’s problems. On the other hand, newer research suggests that kids are fine coming from divorced families, and in fact may even be more resilient and capable of handling life’s challenges. If you really think divorce is going to mess up your kids, think again…Listen in, then weigh in with a comment below.
SHOWNOTES:
- The erroneous assumption that comes along with divorce statistics [3:00]
- What is the real issue here? [8:10]
- The problem with divorce/marriage research [11:45]
- What I suggest you do if you are in a dead marriage [15:15]
- Relationship tools to use if you want to avoid divorce [17:20]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What you want to do? Okay, yeah, yeah, what's up? Welcome back to the Smart Couple podcast, Jason Gatis here. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host, your challenger, your supporter, to help you see there's a whole lot more going on than meets the eye |
| 0:37.1 | to this whole marriage stuff and monogamy. |
| 0:41.4 | This podcast is really about long-term partnership. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay? It's not about, we will include some dating advice, maybe here and there, who knows. |
| 0:50.0 | But it's for people who are in it and get that after the fantasy wears off that everything's |
| 1:02.1 | supposed to feel good in your relationship, you're up Shit Creek, right? |
| 1:07.6 | So this podcast helps you when you're up Shit Creek. It helps you get some galoshes, some big gloves, and perhaps a backhoe maybe, |
| 1:18.0 | and all the right tools that are going to help you get through hard times. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay, in this episode, we are going to talk about staying in a dead marriage for the kids. |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah. Staying in a dead marriage for the kids. So this one is a pretty loaded conversation. If you just Google that you'll see lots of interesting stuff. |
| 1:45.0 | And there's articles on both sides. |
| 1:48.0 | This is a very polarizing conversation. |
| 1:51.0 | And I'm definitely going to take a stance on one side of that fence. |
| 1:56.8 | So a lot of the do-gooders out there will say that divorce is bad, divorce is wrong and divorce is more hurtful than helpful for children |
| 2:10.7 | for the spouse and that's kind of the stance. |
| 2:15.0 | And people also, generally speaking, |
| 2:20.0 | there's a lot of stigma still around divorce, right? |
| 2:25.0 | If you get a divorce, you now have a social stigma, |
| 2:30.0 | a label on you. |
| 2:32.0 | And most people still think that it's less than or bad or wrong again. |
| 2:40.4 | And people judge that you're not successful, that you somehow failed. |
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