Couple Celebrates Divorce with "I Don't" Photo Shoot

[Richard_White]

Couple celebrates divorce with ‘I don’t’ photo shoot – Boston 25 News

I was pretty perturbed when I saw this. Now, the woman in the article does state:

“We are by no means condoning divorce. However, we are not ashamed to celebrate the end of our marriage. We choose to co-parent successfully,” she wrote in a now-private post on Facebook. “We choose to separate FOR the kids and not believe the lie that staying together for the sake of the kids is what is best for them. We love fully when we are our best selves."

Nevertheless, this really sticks out to me as trivializing marriage and its permanence and celebrating something that should be regarded as tragic. Now, I do understand where she is coming from in regard to the kids - they probably won’t be raised in the warm and caring environment that they should when the parents are no longer on good terms. Nevertheless, I don’t think that separating will give the kids the environment that they deserve either. Furthermore, she says that they will “co-parent successfully,” but what about if they meet other people and get remarried? Then what happens? That is why things like this are so dangerous to the welfare of the family.

Anyway, I just wanted to share and hear other people’s thoughts.

May God bless you all!

 

[MNathaniel]

Hard to know what to really say.

It’s not just a case of divorce, but a glamour photography shoot memorializing the divorce in a pretty way, and sharing that with the news media.

Bizarre.

May God help everyone involved.

Also, on the “co-parent successfully” thing, please excuse me while I roll my eyes.

I once dated a man who, as part of trying to pressure me into sex, tried to persuade me that if we ended up pregnant, it’d be fine, because he thought we’d each be great “co-parenters”, even if we didn’t stay together.

What a thing to say to a person. Anticipating in advance that you might break up with a person after having kids with them, and trying to frame that as a fine thing because co-parenting while separate is just one lifestyle choice among many.

So I’m hardly surprised to hear more of this out there.

 

[MNathaniel]

Yup.

I didn’t understand how even he couldn’t see, from even his own perspective, how that was a completely unattractive and unappealing thing to say. Even strategically, with an immoral goal of trying to pressure someone into sex outside of marriage. How did it strike him as even remotely reasonable to mention that he thought it’d be fine if I both got pregnant and then we didn’t stay together.

But it does illuminate for me that this psychology is out there. And I can only infer from the culture, spreading.

Sigh.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Furthermore, she says that they will “co-parent successfully,” but what about if they meet other people and get remarried? Then what happens?

While I don’t condone remarriage in situations where it’s not allowed by the Church, remarriage doesn’t mean that a divorced couple can’t continue to co-parent successfully. I see couples doing this all the time, including after one or both of them enters a new relationship or marriage.

 

[Irishmom2]

I couldn’t get the link to work, but I don’t understand the need for photos. Just another example of people who feel the need to document everything in their life and post it publicly. Too many people over share things that no one really needs to know.