Broken families

February 9, 2016 12:08am CST
Is it me or really we are seeing broken families almost everywhere? Number of divorces are increasing drastically. Has patience level of people gone down or what? Why does a couple have to take extreme measure of separation or divorce. We all have problems everywhere. At home, at office, with parents, with siblings, with our kids. We never broke up with our parents, kids, friends plus or minus few fights or terrific fights even. Why do we leave spouse then. Why ego only comes in this relation. We’ve to tolerate our horrible bosses or clients as well. I believe you could get separated or divorce only if the relation is suffocating, there is no space or respect. Children have to suffer because of this. I am from a country where we live through out our lives at our parents home. So joint family, sometimes even extended families. Imagine living with parents + 3 -4 brothers and their spouses + their kids.
2 responses
• Philippines
9 Feb 16
I don't know the real answer there, but in my opinion, people nowadays easily mistake attraction from love. The love that they feel is not that deep that it can easily be severed through divorce or annulment. Don't get me wrong, though. I do not want to judge people who have undergone divorce or annulment. Some of them did it because they want to get out of an abusive relationship. But for those who divorce because of petty things (for me "irreconcilable differences" is somewhat trivial), I think their relationship was not centered on love in the first place.
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• Bhubaneshwar, India
9 Feb 16
We have become impatient, forget about bonding over the intangible feeling we once called love, our self centered lives have taken a toll over us. I believe most of it shapes itself from the desire to garner materialistic aspirations and having no control over one's action and words. Value education isn't being inculcated in school curriculum , the child is prone to excessive violence and obscenity since birth because our television is programmed to satiate the need of big money making brands without caring about what effect it has on our younger generation . The generation gap and the communication difference between our parents and us is widening on alarming rates because we never really engage our-self in bonding activities like we used to when we have dearth of options precisely , our major concern now a days is wasting time over facebook and starting a fight over a stupid Facebook comment and being narcissistic and stupid . Every one deserves equal attention and care, being self centered, impulsive and alien to value education will see more breakups and troublesome parent-child relationship in the near future.
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