Partners should hold on to each other in tough times
By Huang Yuli | China Daily | Updated: 2010-07-28 08:02

There is an old saying about the "seven year itch", which holds that a marriage will stagnate in its seventh year and could possibly fail during this time. Many couples are scared of it because it indeed comes true in many cases.
In did in Chen Shuizhen's case, although not in the seventh year of her marriage, but the seventh year she has been taking care of her paralyzed husband. They got divorced.
But they ended their relationship without acrimony because Chen was struggling to take care of her husband, who is paralyzed from the neck down. Chen made it clear she wouldn't leave him after the divorce. For them, divorce was more a result of love and consideration for each other, which separated them in name but not in their hearts.
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