When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.

Liane Moriarty
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When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family. The people who are close to the person who is being divorced are affected by it. A divorce can spread like a contagious disease. It may not be intended that way, but it usually is. Family members are hurt by divorce, and many of them do not even know why.

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