They'd rather live together. Yohn, a founder of Last Ditch, which gives couples a trial experience of the legal, financial and other hassles of divorce, says two couples in the last year have recommitted to their marriages after hearing about the nightmare. It's going to make you think about it before you make the decision. It's a rare couple at his premarital counseling groups if neither partner has divorced parents. Benedict, who remembers the official frowns when she was divorced, says the relaxed attitudes partly came from a desire to ease children's pain.
Kids can come up with a feeling that somehow or other they caused it.
They can take on a whole lot of guilt. They feel like they have to choose, and that's not fun. The attitude and behavior of people toward divorced people have really changed. I think people are less judgmental. Ann Alderson, co-leader of a support group for divorced people that meets Tuesdays at Little Flower Catholic Church in South Bend, says the normalizing can go too far.