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When adult children don't understand their parents' divorce

Our adult kids keep asking us to 'work it out' and don't understand why we're divorcing after thirty-two years when we're not screaming at each other, and we don't know how to explain that sometimes love changes shape without becoming hate.

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The end of a long marriage can look like failure to those who equate love with endurance, even when it represents a different kind of wisdom.

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