Week Seven

Who doesn't want a happy ever after? Everyone is seeking happiness in one form or another. When two people get married the only thought they have is to spend the rest of their life with this person only.  Things don’t always go as planned and in the end people end up having divorces.  As It is mentioned in the article 7 myths that can kill your marriage that in past few decades divorce rate have increased tremendously in United  States. Why is that? Is having divorce become part of the American culture? Does American not take matrimony seriously anymore? Do couples face more problems than their parents did? I can go on and ask all sorts of questions but I do not know the answer to them. I feel like people think there is always an option which causes problems in their marriage. Instead of working on problems they already have with their spouse, people rather go and make new ones with different people. Why can’t they solve the problems that they already have?

I am fortunate that my parents are still together after being married for over 30 years. I can only imagine the strain kids feel when their parents go through divorce. Whenever my parents have an argument I get upset and I feel like the whole house’s atmosphere changes. Living in a house where your parents are the verge of having a divorce and then going through with it is very traumatic. Majority of the kids suffer through divorce at young age which in result forces them to mature at a sooner age. Kids take everything to heart and them still developing cognitive thinking.  I know a lot of kids that are raised by single parents and they struggle every single day. There are always money problems and the parent never seems to have enough time as they are trying to make the ends meet. It’s a lose-lose situation for both the parent and the child. It is very unfortunate for the kids to go through such trauma.