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    Would you stay in a dead marriage?

    I know several people who are extremely unhappy and unfulfilled in their marriages and/or partnerships.  Yet, there they stay, sneaking around or simply enduring. What would you do (or have you done) when the relationship has breathed its last?

    +6  Views: 1235 Answers: 17 Posted: 12 years ago
    Bob/PKB


    THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR OPINIONS and experience. It would be really nice if we could have a "runner-up" for best answer....JOSIE111 would be my second choice.

    17 Answers

    I agree with Dollybird,it is indeed daunting and often financially difficult, however having been there you can find amazing inner strength, the road is difficult with lots of obstacles making it easier to stay, but I would (and have) sacrificed security to be my own person, I did miss all the material things and a relatively easy life, but Im now happy with who I am and on reflection I know I made the right decision,no point staying in an unhappy,loveless relationship

    I strongly believe, If you love them let them go for a better life.

    mycatsmom

    screw up the kids. When boys don't have a father in the home, they do off the deep end.Fatherless girls are more likely to use drugs and get pregnant
    Headless Man

    Sometimes staying for the kids is better, but not always.
    I would not give my 1st wife a divorce until she became pregnant with another man baby and then not unless I got the kids at 3,4,11 and 12 I had my hands full but it was the best time looking back.

    a person should not waste their life. it is to short.

    Weigh the pros and cons before deciding anything......

     Ithink some ppl can live through the lack of emotional and physical connection.. "weather the storm"... In my 17 year marriage I have at times truly beleived there was nothing left for either of us to give.


    Living everyday honestly believing the life is being sucked out of you is nothing I would wish on anyone. It got to the point that I told him to leave.. That weekend I wrecked my fourwheeler and crushed the right side of my face... He had to stay to take care of me. 2 months after that he wrecked his motorcycle and broke his fibilula and tibia... I have to stay to take care of him. During this time he made major inprovements on his temper and lack of concideration. (we found out he had hypergonadism) He starting taking testostorone and started to resemble the man I married (emotionally).


    I dont believe that a marriage is worth torturing yourself over... I believe that if all avinues are taken to try to make it work, if you give it the time and attention it needs... and it is still breaking you into pieces... you should close that door, and open a window.


    I believe too many people get married because they want a dress and a party. Not understanding the work a marraige requires. IN that case I dont believe that marraige is valid.. Those two did not pledge themselves to eachother... they pladges themselves to a mountian of debt.


    By the way.... My marriage has never been better! It took some time. But i fell back in love with the man I married!

    mycatsmom

    good job being positive, Jenn
    Headless Man

    Rent and watch FireProof a great movie for all married people to watch.
    Jenn

    I saw it years ago... Good movie..

    The marriage is dead? Bury it and move on!


    If by any slim chance it can be revived, it's worth a try. This is when you loved the person you married. For the ones who thought they were in love, but were in lust. Leave, run, be smarter next time.


     

    I think life is too short to be in a state of prolonged unhappiness.

    FISH-O

    You are completely correct.

    If the situation is beyond saving you are both entitled to try and find happiness apart.


    If you have tried to sort it out rhen it is time to get out.


    "Til death do us part "is a load of hog wash, every one deserve happiness so if there is a supreme being, which I doubt, he/she would not want you to be miserable. Unless the supreme being is also a miserable sod.

    Bob/PKB

    I think that "til death do us part" is just something tacked on by humans to scare the crap out of us. I don't recall coming across any marriage vows in the Bible (my faith book of choice).
    mycatsmom

    The bible says, ''A man shall leave his mother and his father and cleave to his wife.Man and wife are of one flesh ''
    PEOPLELOVER

    Mycatsmom, does your quotation mean the man becomes a "cleaver" as in meat cleaver? Or does it mean who ever wrote that bit couldn`t spell "clever"?
    What about the woman? does she leave her mum and dad or take the man home to live with them?
    What does "of one flesh" mean? Does that mean black people can`t marry white? or vice versa?
    All a bit weird to me.

    Not into necrophilia. No, I wouldn't. If things went bad for me today, I would take my share of the marbles and suck out every minute of life that I could with someone who digs me.

    dont stay if there is cheating but if something can be fixed try that first but if anything isnt working dont stay you have one life to live you dont want to be unhappy for the rest of it

    I stayed in an often times stormy and rocky marriage for 28 years because of an inferiority complex which I finally overcame, and moved out when my youngest graduated high school. I vowed to never again be in that situation, and am much happier for it. It is very easy for us to ask why someone will stay in a bad marriage, but much harder to live it.

    yes i would, maybe theirs still a pulse.. after that "cpr" and then ?

    If it was just a dull marriage, I'd spice it up. If there's no abuse or anything, if you bail out, you'll prob never find someone as good as your spouse. It there's minor  children,, stay in the marriage, for the kids sake,----as long as there's no heavy drinking or abuse.

    eggplant

    Don't you possess a sense of humour?
    Bob/PKB

    mycatsmom definitely has a sense of humor. This question wasn't really looking for funny answers. I was hoping to hear from people who stayed, went, got left, weren't sure what they would do.
    A marriage without love is funny Trust me.

    "" Get rid of them.

    Daisy!

    LMAO!
    FISH-O

    Eggplant you have a certain spin. Big smile.
    mycatsmom

    You're bad, Eggplant. Don't worry.They'll die soon enough. Mine did, but I wasn't happy for it.

    God gave us all free will to do as we choose, it we chose to violate his commandments we are free to do so.


    When we married in the presents of God we made vows to him, that we break at our peril, one of which was "Till Death Do US Part."


    If one does not believe in God, that's their problem and theirs alone alone.   One can share their opinion, but one can not advise another on subjects of morality, IMO

    Headless Man

    Good answer...... TU
    Bob/PKB

    There is a strong part of me that believes the words "Til death do us part" were written by mere mortal man, but that we are making that promise in the presence of God.
    From your answer, it appears that you would not leave a marital relationship, no matter how unhappy it was??

    Any marriage can be saved if God is in the picture ( watch FireProof ) but if one is unfaithful you are free to move on.

    mycatsmom

    what is FireProof ? a movie or what ?
    Headless Man

    Yes, a very good movie, rent it and see, you will cry if your human.

    I think some times a person stays in marrage, because they are bit scared of going alone, and not been able to cope, even with out children.The thought of starting over, can be daunting.



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