Suicide and Depression

Suicide is another common fallout of our high divorce rates. People who commit suicide do not want to die. They want to stop the pain.

Sometimes children commit suicide to get revenge with their parents for breaking up the family. It's an expression of anger. Children often feel that their pain is too great and that it will never end.

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Most people who commit suicide do not want to die. Most desperately want to live, but when the pain of life gets so great for so long, often people end their lives because they can no longer take that pain.

What's sad about this is that if people would just hang in there a little bit longer, things will get better and the pain will subside.

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The myth of the resilient child is a lie unfaithful spouses tell to shelter themselves from the pain their children suffer. This lie is never told for the benefit of the children.

The lie starts with this myth and quickly grows in the direction of the other major victim--the faithful spouse. The cheater claims the children will grow up happy and well adjusted if only the abandoned spouse will cooperate peacefully with the divorce and shelter the children from all disapproval of the divorce.

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