"Are you willing to pay the price? Because there is a price. There's the price of how you feel about yourself. If you have children, if they find out, how are they going to react? Sooner or later they're going to find out," Dawson said.
*Steps Onto Soapbox*
My folks divorced back when I was 19 and off on my own and my sister was a senior in High School, still at home. My mom was having an affair with another man, who has now been her husband for nearly twenty-five years.
I'm still p*ssed at her, and have little or no repsect for either of them. I tolerate them, but don't go out of my way to spend a lot of time with them.
Not that I don't understand the reasons marriages fail (I have a "teen-marriage" divorce behind me) but it was all just so sorrid and mean-spirited and just irresponsible and rude to us all on her part. The path of destruction those two carved is worse than any tornado I've ever seen. (He had a wife and kids, too.)
I'm the age now that she was then. I can't even conceive of treating my kids and husband the way she treated us.
There is a steep price to pay; for everyone involved. I believe "Collateral Damage" is the term I'm looking for.
*Steps Off Soapbox*
The cost is terrible, but it happens all of the time. People wanting the fairy tale, and they don't realize the price. The price of friends, children, family, etc. Until it is too late.