To my own knowledge, marriage can be a wonderful and loving thing, or it can tear two people apart and completely change them into completely different people. Someone whom I have known my entire life went through a divorce. Going through the divorce was enough heartache in itself, but the aftermath was even worse.
She has a young daughter who just started kindergarten and cant be there when she leaves for school or even gets home from school. She barely gets to spend time with her; the only time is when she tucks her into bed. The someone I know works downtown and lives in the suburbs, so the commute to and from work can result in hours of traveling depending upon what kind of traffic the streets provide that day. In addition to her barely getting enough time to spend with her daughter, she only sees her every other weekend because of shared custody with her bastard of an ex-husband.
Now don't think that the little five year old girl wakes up in an empty house and comes home to an empty house everyday; she has two loving grandparents that take care of her while her mom is gone at work all day. But even so, the young girl starts fights with her mom because she never gets to spend time with her. If the someone I know did have a husband, perhaps she would have a constant father figure and a mother who could be with her a great deal more.
Her divorce was inevitable, I saw it from the beginning, but I'm not saying that the little girls life would be any better because of the someone I know and her bastard of an ex-husband fighting constantly. Being a single parent is incredibly hard to my own personal knowledge, and I hope and pray for the people whose lives suffer because of it.
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