{"id":6099,"date":"2009-07-29T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/divorce-doesnt-just-murder-families\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:30","slug":"divorce-doesnt-just-murder-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/divorce-doesnt-just-murder-families.html","title":{"rendered":"Divorce doesn&#8217;t just murder families"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/07\/28\/divorce.marriage.health\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It helps to kill people too!<\/a>  Turns out the whole \u201cno fault\u201d divorce thing basically pretends that when you destroy the family you were supposed to nurture, love and support, that sort of trauma can adversely affect the health of the victims of your selfish betrayal.  Amazingly, it also appears that even if everyone around you says, \u201cEverybody agreed that it was nobody\u2019s fault\u201d this does nothing to mitigate the effects upon victims of divorce.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, scientists have discovered that if you drop a brick on your betrayed spouse\u2019s and\/or child\u2019s head from a height of 20 feet, it hurts them very badly in ways they may not recover from for years, if at all.  Further, explaining that you are doing so because \u201cI\u2019m doing what I need to do for me\u201d or moaning \u201cWhat about my needs for emotional and professional fulfillment!\u201d has not been shown to reduce the pain one bit.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but I\u2019ve seen too many bloody awful divorces close up.  It\u2019s the psychic and emotional mass murder of a family.  Yes, there are situations where it\u2019s necessary for the physical safety of (usually) the wife and kids.  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