Coming from a broken family why would you ever leave your family?

Well, on one hand, I agree with you. (As a child of divorce, I never intend to divorce, because I wouldn't want to put my family through that pain.) However, having said that, let me say that if a person or both people in a marriage are very unhappy and their differences cannot be reconciled, sometimes the best (and only) thing to do is to separate and seek therapy for the possibility of divorce. Surely you don't believe that people should stay in abusive relationships or in marriages where they are being cheated on, etc. If there is no love and if there is no trust or even friendship, it would be wrong for a person to stay just to protect the family from divorce, because what they are subjecting them to is even more miserable. Two people in an awful situation in which they feel trapped can divest a whole lot of unhappiness on those around them, believe me.

Wow, that's really sad and selfish. I could never leave my family. My kids need me, as I'm the only stable person in their lives. My husband needs me...he's been through enough heartache in his life without me adding to it. I don't understand how someone could do that.

I cannot imagine anything worse than being away from my children. If they know nothing else, my children know mom and dad would move heaven and earth for them.

i agree with you. i came from a broken family too, and it is really a painful thing and i know my dad is being hated for leaving us. i wouldn't want the same fate with me and i will never leave my family.

I agree with you... my soon to be ex sister in law left her son and husband for a guy she meet on the interent. She had a broken home growing up and I can remember her living in our home in highschool because she had no where to go. She had some stability and since of family when she married my brother and she let it all go. I don't understand.