Understanding MRAs

I second this advice.

My aunt (a staunch Catholic, and this was many decades ago when that meant something WRT marriage) came to the realization – along with my uncle – that the right thing to do was divorce, despite the fact that they both still loved each other very much. In their case, it had to do with the inability to successfully treat his alcoholism, and financially they needed to protect the equity in the house for the children, not lose it paying for treatments (or lawyers, if anything happened while he was drunk). But the underlying truth is the same: sometimes, no matter how much you love each other, the right thing to do is to legally become individuals again. Protecting the marriage should not ever compromise protecting the people involved.

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