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Edited on Wed May-11-11 09:02 AM by meow2u3
Their marriage had been over long before my mom left my dad in 1980. There were only two reasons they stayed together under the same roof: money, or the lack thereof (it was impossible for my mom to get a job in NYC with the unemployment rate the way it was in the 70s), and ostensibly, "for the sake fo the kids", i.e., yours truly + brother & sisters.
Needless to say, we all saw through the sham which was our parent's marriage. Yet my parents never divorced; they merely legally separated, which allowed my mom to inherit my dad's pensions. Theirs was a gray separation.
I don't have marital problems--I never married.
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