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I must be pretty childish since you're the one that started throwing a temper tantrum because I posted that Obama and Phelps grew up in one parent households.
I must be pretty childish since you're the one that started throwing a temper tantrum because I posted that Obama and Phelps grew up in one parent households.
I haven't thrown a temper tantrum; I don't even have a dog in this fight as a childless person. You are one seriously weird person, looking for battles so you can be a white knight. Cheers I am done with you, too strange....
I haven't thrown a temper tantrum; I don't even have a dog in this fight as a childless person. You are one seriously weird person, looking for battles so you can be a white knight. Cheers I am done with you, too strange....
The hell you talking about?
Not everyone perceived my post as looking for a battle
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Originally Posted by Braunwyn
Talk about opposing, interesting examples.
Your reaction to what I posted says more about you than it says about me
I never thought about it until now, but when I look at the successful people I know, none were raised by a single parent. All came from married parents.
What is your definition of "successful"?
I'd say almost half of my friends are from single parent households, and plenty were normal, happy and functioning members of society. Myself included.
Sure, I went through a lot of BS as a kid, but I pulled through it. I have a great job and I get to travel the US. I have a stable and healthy relationship with a successful boyfriend (parents are married). I'm far more adventurous than he is, so maybe that has something to say about our ties to staying around home.
But if your definition of successful is a crazy millionaire, then I don't know. Many people aren't successful.
My parents married were very dysfunctional and awful for each other. They literally sucked the life right away. People think kids can't sense "fake" love or understand arguments. My parents never publicly fought (until the end when they announced their divorce to us), but you could sense the tension in our house. There was no true love between them.
I'm so happy my father remarried the love of his life a few years ago and got to see what a real marriage looks like. Unfortunately he (we) lost her to cancer, but it completely changed my life.
If she's someone you'd have stayed with anyway, you stay. If she's not someone you'd have stayed with, you don't. Staying when you otherwise would not only makes for a bad relationship that will likely get worse and end anyway. Wisdom is making the right decision even when pressured to make the wrong decision.
Not everyone perceived my post as looking for a battle
Your reaction to what I posted says more about you than it says about me
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
That is scary but yep I have read many stats like that. We need to stop glamorizing single parenthood.
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