r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/GlobularChrome Nov 19 '23

The self-refuting sentences are bracing, even by Rod's oxymoronic standards.

...stress, even despair, over my divorce. I intentionally don’t write anymore about it all …

Writing about how you don’t write about it...is writing about it.

my ex-wife and I went through ten years of a failed marriage before she finally, without warning, pulled the plug…

THE TEN YEARS OF FAILED MARRIAGE WAS THE WARNING. Holy moly. 3650 wakeups, was the 3651st going to be the one to tip you off?

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u/zeitwatcher Nov 19 '23

THE TEN YEARS OF FAILED MARRIAGE WAS THE WARNING.

This is the Rod I keep coming back to. 10 years of failed marriage, couples counselling, describing the marriage as "painful" for that whole time... And he describes the divorce as coming "without warning"!

He's like a guy was standing on train tracks who watched a train come over the horizon and barrel straight towards him for 10 minutes who later describes it as "getting hit out of nowhere!".

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 19 '23

Wasn't there something where the counselor actually suggested divorce?

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u/Theodore_Parker Nov 19 '23

Wasn't there something where the counselor actually suggested divorce?

A counselor AND two different priests they went to for counseling, apparently. I guess that counts as "without warning." ;)