Child with Special Needs
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:52 pm
Total shot in the dark here. Three years ago our son was born. While he's the sweetest most happiest kid in the world, the incessant labor involved in such an endeavor, and all of the insurance, medical surgeries and uncertainty as well as the organizational bureaucracy we have to wade through is maddening. We're exhausted, our patience is on it's last leg and neither of us are happy. There's a couple of questions I have:
a.) While there's always talk that happily married men live longer than single men, is there any study that shows that unhappily married men live less than single men?
b.) Who finances these studies??? The 700 club???? It always seems like there's some underlying religious ulterior motive that's bent on getting us all to the altar. Is there any study that does an overall look at just any marriage in general for better or worse?
b.) Is it ever possible to have a happy marriage when you have a child with special needs? I once read that the divorce rate is 80%! Can any relationship truly endure such a thing? I want this to work out for my son, but our sanity is truly at risk.
At wit's end ,
J New Mexico
a.) While there's always talk that happily married men live longer than single men, is there any study that shows that unhappily married men live less than single men?
b.) Who finances these studies??? The 700 club???? It always seems like there's some underlying religious ulterior motive that's bent on getting us all to the altar. Is there any study that does an overall look at just any marriage in general for better or worse?
b.) Is it ever possible to have a happy marriage when you have a child with special needs? I once read that the divorce rate is 80%! Can any relationship truly endure such a thing? I want this to work out for my son, but our sanity is truly at risk.
At wit's end ,
J New Mexico