[Harrison Bergeron]

"Now your tossing in arcane statements about how individuals deal with addition."

Arcane my @ss. That comment was in direct response to your assertion that "couples" have to deal with addiction problems or face divorce. But then anybody who bothers to reply to you can usually expect a faceful of snide for their trouble.

[wordsofearnest]

This whole thread has been a bunch of touchy feely B/S. Men should be men and support their families. A little more discretion and common sense on the front end would would prevent most of this. As Paul Harvey said " Don't breed them if you can't feed them".

[Lorianne]

That wasn't the issue. The issue I was addressing was whether or not you can defend your statment that shopping addiction causes more divorces than infidelity. Care to back that up?

When I asked you to provide some backup to your statement you decided to divert attention by making a pat statment that only individuals can resolve their own addiction. Well fine, ultimately yes they do. But they often do so with the help and support of a spouse or family member. Either way, it was a secondary issue, which was the point of your diversionary tactic.

Once again, what evidence do you have that shopping addiction, running up credit cards, etc., breaks up more marriages than infidelity? PS I don't mind if you're right, you might well be. I'd just like to see some data on this. If true it would be an interesting fact.