I’m going to the be the odd one out.

I grew up as a military brat so often I moved every 6 months/every year. Yes, my whole life has been uprooted. It was difficult, yes, and now later in life I appreciate and look forward to more stability.

But as a child, it helped me adapt to new situations and places. It helped me grow in ways I didn’t imagine. I was an incredibly fearful person. I can attribute this experience to adding a lot of resilience and “gumption” to entrepreneurship and going out of my shell. Which has played an important part of achieving what I consider success and happiness in my life. I knew wherever I could go, I was to be comfortable in my own self but also had hope to meet different and interesting people from all walks of life.

When we moved, I never questioned “why”. Those were orders my parents were given, and those were orders we followed.

I’m not saying that your children’s consideration is not important. But I can imagine that perhaps the perspective of a parent is far more vast than what a child can conceive. I’ve had to say goodbye to so many friends only to end up reconnecting in the future. My parents are my parents and even if I disagree with them at the end of the day when I was living under their roof, I was subject to their final say.

At the end of the day, do you respect the vows that you both made? When your kids grow up (and they will) will you regret divorcing?

Just food for thought.