Originally Posted by
hopeful4 
I was first in my HUGE family to be divorced. The only one, ever. I also come from a generation that you don't divorce... Guess what, two other women in my extended family divorced after me... We are all collectively much happier people.
Much the same here. My Dad was divorced when he met Mom. but most of the aunts and uncles and cousins stayed married to their first spouse. One uncle was divorced. Even though he was the black sheep of the family, some considered the divorce his wife's doing, since uncle gave up a job and lifestyle he liked a lot for her and she still left him. Of the bunch of us in our 60s and 70s on both side of the family, 3 cousins have divorced.
Interestingly, when my sister and I joked about Cher divorcing after six days whichever Allman brother she'd married, he'd said, "There's nothing wrong in admitting you've made a mistake."