And THAT my FRiend is exactly the truth....
Watched it happen to others, then watched it happen to me. Played out like a script I had read several times before. Once the train left the station, there was no stopping it, it was just a matter of timing before it reached each station.
Friend gets divorced, they go out together to console, then carouse, and then it's your turn. If you have kids, then your financial ruin follows.
Add to that a culture which views divorce as a badge of honor and a sign of maturity...
I once heard an allegedly “Christian Pastor” say perjoritively of a colleague “he’s still on his FIRST MARRRIAGE”—as though that was something to be ashamed of.
I saw that go around an office I worked in. Like watching the plague.