Since I am one of the ones that posted about the joy of divorce and the cleansing trip to WDW, it suddenly hit me on how we are celebrating a failed marriage and in some cases a traumatically broken family. I suspect we do it to express a relief of sorts and know that divorce doesn't have the social trauma that it once had.
My divorce happened after my kids had grown, married and were either working on or had already started a family. But, to show how much affect that it still had on them, the other day my youngest daughter (44 years old) was at my place visiting. I have a changeable calendar, (the type where you have little wooden numbers that have to be changed every month) that she gave us when we were still married. It says "The (family name)", followed by the words "Established in 1972". I went in another room to find something and when I returned, there she was looking at that calendar with tears rolling down her face. She didn't say much, but I could tell that she seemed to be mourning what she perceived as once a very happy family. It almost made me cry, and I have been called dead from the neck up for my ability to never show much emotion. We sometimes get so wrapped up in our own emotions that we fail to see the impact that our actions (regardless of good or bad) affects others.