If parents aren't happy, kids know it. If parents are miserable, kids REALLY know it.
Divorce is really fucking hard on kids. Living with miserable parents is worse. I know. I spent most of my family feeling from the age of 12 to 22 wishing my parents would just get divorced and stop making all of us suffer, and having no way to have that conversation with them. Then they did get divorced, and all of us have been happy since then.
The worst effect on me was not having any understanding of what a good partnership looked like. Happy parents are important to having happy kids.
Divorce is really fucking hard on kids. Living with miserable parents is worse. I know. I spent most of my family feeling from the age of 12 to 22 wishing my parents would just get divorced and stop making all of us suffer, and having no way to have that conversation with them. Then they did get divorced, and all of us have been happy since then.
The worst effect on me was not having any understanding of what a good partnership looked like. Happy parents are important to having happy kids.