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Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:20AM (#27035873)
I'm fairly young and it's something that scares me deeply about marriage. How do you spend 30 years with someone, someone you once loved deeply, and come to a point where you no longer want to share your life with them.

My closest friend I've known for 10 years and we know each others intimately, it's a deep connection that can only be built with time and effort. It's without comparison to other friends that I've only known for a few years. So you spend 30 years building something so strong with a single person, there's never going to be someone else like this, you can't spend another 30 years building something with someone else, that's it. I don't know how you can deal with losing something like this.

Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by me_me_me on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:57AM (#27036147)
Once you start a fire it is not a job done. You got to work on keeping it up.

There are two reasons for divorce I have seen, one people marry too quickly and are simply incompatible (a lot of divorces during lockdown happened because people were forced together and they cannot stand each others company for long). Other is thinking that once the ring is on her that the game is won no more effort.

Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by eska on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:44AM (#27051371)
That's overly simplistic to the extent that it is dangerous.

It takes two to tango. You can do everything right and your partner may still cheat on you, manipulate the children to dislike you, etc. It is unfair to say "you married too quickly" (apart from shotgun marriage, at some point you must make a leap of faith after all) or your second point that this person must not have tried hard enough. There are many reasons a marriage can fail, an many of them are out of one's control.

Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by me_me_me on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:08PM (#27065348)
> It takes two to tango, You can do everything right and your partner may still cheat on you, manipulate the children to dislike you, etc

Absolutely, some people will roll triple 1 and land their feelings on absolute garbage of a human and will get hurt.

I think the point I was trying to make was that one of components of long term marriage is that you need to keep it up (both sides need to keep it up).

Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by eska on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:12PM (#27080907)
I agree. My problem with your previous post was just that it sounds like "either you're doing this wrong or you're doing that wrong" without acknowledging that it's possible to not have done anything wrong, or at least anything warranting a divorce.
Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by dmos62 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:02PM (#27042215)
It's a cliche, but what passes for love is often attachment. I actually can't quite differentiate between the two (though I'm not saying they're the same thing). Shedding attachment can be extremely painful, when it's involuntary. Ironically, it's over-attachment that precipitates divorce.
Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by berndi on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:31AM (#27036430)
Exactly. How are romantic relationships not a zero-sum game?
Re:Bill and Melinda gates divorce after 27 years of marriage by devtosales on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:23AM (#27035893)
Divorce can be as traumatic as a death - for me it was liberating though.