Should You Stay In Your Marriage For The Sake Of The Kids?

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Research shows that fifty percent or more of divorcees later say they regret their decision to split. In my opinion, most marriages careening towards divorce can be saved. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Dr. Laura's Deep Dive, offering new analysis and advice on some of life's more perplexing
0:08.4	problems deep-telling, marriage, relationships, mental health, and more.
0:15.2	Dr. Laura's Deep Dive Podcast Research shows that more than 50 percent or more of
0:22.6	folks who divorce later say they regret their decision to split about that.
0:29.3	In my opinion, many marriages, careening toward divorce, can be saved.
0:34.7	I'm not just talking about coexisting.
0:38.2	I really think a lot of marriages can move from a troubled state to a good one, as long
0:44.2	as the couple puts in the effort to make the changes.
0:49.2	That's more likely to happen with the proper motivation, and what better motivation is there
0:55.4	than the well-being of the children you've created together, or even the happiness and
1:02.0	fulfillment that comes from warm, loving bond between each other.
1:08.3	But if there are minor children in the home and there's been no infidelity, no issues
1:12.0	of addiction, no abuse, I think it's your obligation to find a way to stick it out instead
1:18.2	of choosing to go your separate ways.
1:21.2	Getting separate ways means destroying your kids' lives, as they know them.
1:27.8	Many of the marriage-related calls I get are simply about two people who have stopped
1:33.4	putting in the effort to show love, to show kindness to each other.
1:39.4	Quite often I hear, we've just grown apart, and to that I say, people do not grow apart.
1:46.9	They let go.
1:49.2	Once the place Kelly was in, when she called questioning whether she should stay with
1:53.7	her husband for the sake of their child.
1:57.1	Kelly, welcome to the program.
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