.miserable
I was watching this family of 4 eat breakfast this morning and the mom and dad wasnt talking to the kids or each other. Everyone was just eating in silence. This is how cheating starts because people eventually need a outside interest.
Then my supervisor makes this statement in regards,to going on a business trip
"I hope i get to go so i can get away from my family"
Lol. Stop having kids people
In my opinion, a lot of the blame for the prevalence of situations like this is our popular culture's emphasis on the spark of romantic attraction. We're told over and over again by dipshit movies and TV shows that the exclusive path to human happiness is in that romantic spark, and if we follow our hearts, we'll find that special someone with whom that butterfly feeling will last forever and we'll live happily ever after.
In reality, that spark is fleeting as shit approximately 100 percent of the time. Relationships that stretch out past the first year or two are based on a lot more than that hormonal compulsion that we like to call "needing" each other. On top of that, getting one's shit together emotionally and finding some greater purpose in life than just breathing and turning carbs into turds generally takes the idea of some mythical, perpetual honeymoon period off of its all-too-common pedestal and places it into perspective.
The real travesty, though, is that somewhere along the line, the importance placed upon such a supposedly unparalleled key to contentment encourages its elevation above all other goals or principles, and so when we're tired of ******* our current partners, the inevitable lack of that spark and the potential for finding its replacement elsewhere becomes a convenient rationalization for allowing the decay of family units that were put together far too hastily in the first place.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoy that romantic new car smell as much as the next bag of hormones, but our obsession with fresh and exciting sex, and our demand that one single person somehow provide that for us perpetually, and our simultaneous assumption that if our child rearing partner is incapable of providing that (spoiler alert: they are incapable of providing that) then we've found the wrong partner and we should move on, because it's all about being HAPPY RIGHT NOW. . . that shit is wreaking HAVOC on our family structures. We'd almost be better off rewinding to the days of arranged marriage. Couldn't be worse than encouraging everyone to choose their parenting partners with all the care and rationale of horny teenagers.