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> We can recognize that committed partnerships are healthy and encourage them without saying that any one individual is at fault if a relationship didn't work o
by autoexec 4y ago
> We can recognize that committed partnerships are healthy and encourage them without saying that any one individual is at fault if a relationship didn't work out.
Do we really need to encourage happy, healthy, and successful committed partnerships? Don't most people desire that for themselves? We should probably avoid outright discouraging them, but I suspect that most people are wanting a good, happy, loving, relationship and that if they divorce it's because they didn't have one.
I really don't think that it's simply a matter of most people seeing divorce as being so easy and consequence free that there's no value in putting in the effort to work things out with their spouses either. Especially not when children are involved.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoNot encourage in the "rah rah, you should want this" sense, but in the "here's how to achieve this" sense - not running away is kinda key. And it's become impossible to call out bad advice in the current climate. You can call out good advice as much as you want, because it's common wisdom, but any criticism of things that have been historically looked down upon as terrible ideas because they are is "punching down".