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Should we stay together in a marriage that has broken down simply because we have children.

So for the sake of our children we're going to stick together.

Well, that's a very good question.

They're pros and cons.

Let's look at the pros.

People think that perhaps if we stay together the children will have both parents, father

and mother.

And so it's going to be better for them and their upbringing.

Well if you cared for the children so much you would solve your problems.

You would become a better person.

You both would become better people.

You would look at what the issue was and resolve it because what is the point of staying

together for the children when every day those children are going to see mother and father

yelling at each other, swearing each other.

There is no love there, no respect there.

The worst words, abusive relationship and the relationship that is not ideal at all,

very far from ideal in fact.

So what happens is the circle continues and the cycle actually continues.

That child is going to grow up and perhaps one day marry and think that the way my mum

and dad treated each other is how I should be with my spouse.

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