I know a lot of people see divorce as a bad thing, and I understand it, but I am a firm believer that children cannot be happy and healthy unless parents are also happy and healthy. I read this article on boston.com and I think it's a lovely example of the results of an ideal divorce. When you marry and have children, you are permanently linked together as a family. Like the author, I hate when people refer to divorced families as "broken homes". I would much rather my parents be happy with different partners than miserable with each other.

All that being said, I would do everything I could to save my marriage before divorcing; marriage is a big freaking deal and it shouldn't be treated as disposable and temporary.