Retired from the Military early-was accepted on the Ontario, Canada Police Force- now a retired 20 year police veteran, he is my first marriage and we lasted 20 years together,we "grew apart" in what to do in old age- I hold men to very high standards now.

I wondered about that as well-when X accepted police job-in Canada there was a study saying there was a high divorce % for law enforcement officers.

I think our bio-kids suffered at first then benefited, we were kind of like "Dharma and Greg"-I was bohemian and X was VERY regimented (I blamed it on the fact he is British-sorry UK'er's-my excuse is he is from Sheffield, Yorkshire, and again, the bane of my existance a "Scorpio", see earlier post of the Scorpion "stare"). Our son's have AMAZING talents and personalities at a cost -I accept my part in NOT being as consistent as he was, if only I believed...

Step Parenting – you might need to step back before you step in something!

BM is a CNA...well she was when she worked!

school. She told me she wanted a divorce four months after she graduated with her BSRN.

Nurses, MD's and Police have some of the highest divorce rates of any career. High stress emotionally intense professions often to not lend themselves to marital longevity.

Well I hope that doesn't predict my future because I have just completed my first year of Nursing School today! LOL, I think it has nothing to do with the profession...It takes a lot of strenth and tenacity to do those jobs listed above and they are not for everyone...everyone doesn't have the temperment but some have the intelligence to make it through the schooling...Money is a key factor for why lots of people become nurses.

The BM we have to deal with works in...ya ready?! CHILD CARE. (omg)

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DISNEY LIED...THERE IS NO 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER'

currently going to school for nursing...yippee...wouldn't you just love to be lying in a hospital bed and discover she is the one going to be taking 'care' of you?! I have visions of Kathy Bates in the movie Misery. It must run in the family, SD21 and her husband are both going to nursing school also. No offense intended to any of the nursing people on here, but how do some of these people pass the initial tests to get accepted into the nursing program? I also have a sister who was a nurse, now she's a medical attorney and I often wondered how she got accepted!

Our BM is not a nurse but it's interesting you brought this post up. I belong to an all women sportsbike club..and 7 out of 9 members are nurses.

Our BM is not a nurse. She's nothing.
"He grew up in my heart, not my belly"

And apparently that means traveling out of town the one night a week she is supposed to have SD, but still managing to be at home that night to see me drive by on my way to a friend's house and stupidly complain to SD that she saw me that night. Ummmm....how long do you think it took SD to realize that contradiction in visitation?

She is a travel nurse because she can set up patients initial visits and then check in on how their assigned nurse is treating them occasionally, so she never has to sustain any level of relationship with anyone. She also doesn't have to do any undesirable nursing duties either, that most visiting nurses do, because of her admin position.

She loves to brag about being an RN, though she has two degrees actually (one in journalism.) She also likes to diagnose, and self prescribe for SD and when DH and I met SD was a little OTC junkie, popping benedryl and advil for every perceived sneeze, sniffle, ache or pain. Advil for a stomach ache. THAT's one of my favorites.

Anyway...RN by trade, amateur quack by choice.

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?" ~Hamlet Act III scene I

It just happens that nursing is a high pressure and emotionally intense profession.

Congrats to those of you starting, attending, finishing or who have already graduated from nursing school. I wrote all of the papers my XW had to write while she was in nursing school and I experienced the work and pressure she was under while in school.

She ran off with one of her patients four months after she graduated with her BSRN. She met him (the geriatric Fortune 500 VP sugardaddy) during her post surgical care rotation in nursing school. Apparently they sparked up quite the vibe while she was giving him sponge baths.

My hat is off to all of you. Now, just make sure you learn how to start an IV without causing pain. I had an emergency appendectomy two years ago and the nurse who started an IV would have made Charles Manson proud. It felt like she was trying to insert a garden hose in my hand with a jack hammer.

As a side note, several of my close friends are nurses. Those guys are crazy.

Best regards,

LOL! They are both great people though.

I do think it's a strange trend. I think alot of people nailed it though, high stress jobs have a higher divorce rate. I think the two higest are military and law enforcement.

~Happiness is defined by the smile on your face, not the frown on others.~

She was screwing around w/ her partner before she left DH. Unfortunately EMTs leaving spouses for their partners is a pretty common thing. She also works for the volunteer fire dept. and we live in the same city. I dread the day I need to dial 911.

"Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get me"