Tonight we went out to eat at Backyard Burgers. While sitting there eating, we observed a woman pull up in a new GMC Yukon (diagonally across a couple of parking spaces). I thought it looked a little odd, and she just sat there for a bit. A man came walking across the parking lot from a truck and went around the other side of the Yukon. Right as I said to Jennifer that I was looking to see if the woman had a ring on, Jennifer said she was looking for exactly the same thing. It became incredibly obvious that we were indeed seeing two divorced parents "swapping off" the kids in the parking lot. The parents hardly spoke a word or even looked at each other.
The two little girls stood around on the sidewalk waiting on the dad to finish fiddling around with stuff in his truck (across the parking lot) while the mom waited for him to come back and get the girls. It was a searing illustration of the way kids of divorce end up in a confused, painful world of "in-between."
After the dad came back and got the two girls, the mom came back a few minutes later with another younger sister. As the mom drove off again, Jennifer thought she saw the mom start to cry. There were no smiles or laughter from anyone, even while the dad and daughters were in the restaurant. It was sad to see the cold reality of what divorce does to people and families. And to think that most marriages end in divorce now.
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While it is sad that many marriages end in divorce, it is sometimes for the best. I can't stand to think of what my childhood would have been if my parents had stayed married. My parents weren't good together, and Liz and I are better off because they divorced.
Very sad. This kind of scene happens to my nieces every other week.
My mom's parents divorced when she was in college and some of her siblings were at home. They weren't any such regulations about shared custody and all of that, so I don't think my mom's siblings ever stayed with their dad.
Very sad.
I think its sad that parents can't rise above a failed marriage for the children.
My husband is divorced and has a son from his previous marriage. We pick up my step son at a restaurant every other weekend. It is a silent 'exchange.' The silence is only because his ex-wife chooses not to speak. She is cold, hateful, vengeful and she chose to have an affair that ended her marriage to my husband. Many times people forget that it's not always the mothers that suffer. The fathers suffer too.
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