Did You Have Parents That Divorced?

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  1. Holly Saunders

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    I am the eldest of 4 from my father's second marriage.....
     
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    Oh, I forgot...….I have a picture of him, in Navy dress blues, when he was a Seabee and a picture of him standing beside me and my grandpa. At that time, he was smoking non-filtered Camel cigarettes and is holding one in the photo.
     
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    @Chris Ladewig
    It would seem that suicide is more common than one might think. My maternal grandpa, several years before my birth, working in a friend's tailor shop, requested the friend leave his pistol handy; the gun was kept hidden away, thus that night my grandpa swung himself from an overhead beam. At that time, my parents had been married about 13 years, and my sister was 10.

    The father of a lady my folks knew, was talking suicide, the lady asked my Dad to buy/take away the old man's shotgun,which he did for $8.00. The old guy hung himself in a closet.

    Then, there were my in-laws.......

    Frank
     
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    That's kind of odd because my dad's father hung himself too. They lived in Kenosa at the time
     
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  5. Holly Saunders

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    Show us the pic Cody? :D
     
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  6. Holly Saunders

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    Sorry @Chris Ladewig & @Frank Sanoica about your grandparents...hanging is a particularly horrible way to die..


    My mother committed suicide ... she was just 39 years old... my youngest sibling was 10
     
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    :(:(:(
     
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  8. Hedi Mitchell

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    Geez ....so sorry so many of you had to endure so much in your young lives.
    Mine was far from ideal also, but no hangings or suicides.
     
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  9. Lon Tanner

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    My mother and father were married in1932 and divorced in 1948
     
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    My parents divorced and then remarried two years later. We kept on celebrating their original wedding date and just sort of ignored the two-year "gap".
     
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  12. Holly Saunders

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    No...although my father was Divorced before he met my mother !!
     
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  13. Bess Barber

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    My parents married when I was three. (Long story) They are still married after sixty years.
     
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  14. Hedi Mitchell

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    Nope..they were married 55 years.
     
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    Nope, although my mother should have gotten rid of that boozer. He died early which gave her the best part of her life - with our help.:D
    The good thing about not getting divorced was that it entitled her to receive an extended widow's pension after the wall had come down which enabled her to enjoy the last 15 years of a financially secure retirement.
     
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