I’m absolutely miserable in my marriage. Contemplating divorce, but we have a two year old. Anyone here gone through it? How do you make the call?

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I feel you. Ive been on a bit of a roller coaster about this as well. Hard to call it quits with kids involved and I really can’t fathom splitting up weekends and holidays and all of that. We are in therapy and it has helped. Have you gone that route yet?

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Therapy is very crucial in this situation. Even if it still sucks after a while and you do end up calling it, at least you know you did everything you could to try and make it work.

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I am finally on the other side of this. I waited until my son was 4. It was messy. He is now 7 and the divorce is finally final. But coparenting is forever.

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I divorced when my daughter was 2. Every situation is different. I’m sorry you are going through it.

I second the therapy route. My daughter is almost 4.5 and the 2s and 3s were the toughest. We’re not 1000% out of the woods - and went back to therapy twice - but having a rational third party really helped. If you’re in NYC, happy to recco the person we saw.

Would love a recco

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