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[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just keep telling yourself, "two Christmases and two birthdays" until greed washes away the pain.

Then try to be less of an asshole to your kids.

[–] Pfnic@feddit.ch 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Except if your parents never end up divorcing and you just having to live with their bickering and one parent undermining the other with gaslighting. Fun times…

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

"Stay together for the kids, we can make them as miserable as we are together!"

[–] FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

God this little fucker is ADORABLE

[–] someguy@lemmyland.com 19 points 1 year ago

I'll adopt the hedgie

[–] heat_death@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

They're playing child support chicken.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can never understand how a grown ass adult (heck, two grown ass adults) can fight in front of a child.... I rlly hope we become better parents when the time comes...

[–] explodicle@local106.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's impossible to never fight in front of a kid you're raising yourselves. If you live in the city during a pandemic, there might be literally nowhere else to go. I think the key is to fight fair; don't forget that you love the people hearing your words.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Fair... Although in my mind, I was thinking of a fight as an escalated disagreement. Disagreements are fine. In fact, they are inevitable. In this context, I define a "fight" as "a disagreement involving raised voices, shouting, cursing and even violence at times".

It just seems that we share slightly different definitions when we refer to a "fight". Either ways, the advice "don’t forget that you love the people hearing your words" is extremely useful in such cases. Let's hope that we can live by it to the maximum :)