Very fortunate that my parents are still together after 31 years and still going strong, and more adorable by the year. But, outside of that the rest of my family is pretty messy. My mom's older brother is like the worst at it and I feel almost intentionally. He has been married at least 5 times, about to be married this fall, again, and has so many gfs in between that at any family gathering it's always someone different. It literally is a dark humor running joke at who my uncle is going to bring next Christmas or Thanksgiving. And the worst is the type of women he gets with, generally good natured women who have just gotten through a divorce of their own. He is like the ultimate rebounder guy who marries them, and then leaves/divorces them after like a year. It's awful to watch and really hard on my two cousins (his sons). He divorced their mom when both were like 8 and 6 i think.
One of his sons has had a kid with a women who wanted to be with him and then just used him to get pregnant, and has also been married and divorce to a women who essentially ended up hating that my cousin had said kid. That cousin though is kind of a loose cannon and easy to fool at times but no one deserves that kind of crap. The other cousin basically deals with it by walking the tightest line with his wife and new son as possible, so that's good but it's hard on him.
My mom's younger sister is almost the female version of their older brother except after the few marriages and divorces and bfs in between she has at least been with the guy she's currently married for about 8 years, so I guess it worked out, but of course it hurt her two daughters, she divorced their dad also at like when they were 8 and 6.
And to top it off their mom and dad, my grandpa and grandma divorced after 40 years. I remember it and it hurt me cause we were a pretty close family, not in the way if it was my mom and dad. I guess I still can't understand how you divorce someone after so long, but all my mom says is that "they got tired of each other" which I guess can happen, just it added and new layer of effing my mom, my two uncles and my aunt.
And that's just my mom's side, my dad side's not as bad but I can't even explain it mostly cause I don't know them (they all live in Montana-Wyoming-Idaho) and most of those issues revolve around dealing with reclusive and bitter sibling rivalries rather than divorces. Long story short, divorce sucks especially when kids are involved, and while it's usually better for the people involved to live apart it creates and awful mess.