Divorce scene Don and Betty finally decide to divorce and attempt to tell the children. A really sad scene. Enjoy. I own nothing, all clips belong to Lionsgate. The video is just for entertainment.
I am far from liking Betty, and agree that she isn't mom of the year! But what Don did to Betty was worse than what she did to him. He cheated (first, and more than her), he lied, he made her feel like a child, spied on her through her psychiatrist, got mad at her when his boss pawed her, and just generally very rarely considered her feelings. Betty struck me as a deeply unhappy woman. I think this unhappiness is what affects her relationship with the kids, and Don's partly to blame for that.
I definitely agree. I think deep down Betty isn't a bad person at all, she would be far from that. I think her treating her children badly was only situational (but it doesn't make it anything less to the children)
Betty never should have married Don. Her mother brainwashed her into thinking she was a good little housewife but the truth is she wanted a career and life beyond home. She was happy when a model and living in manhatten. Thats where she should have been and had kids and got married later on if she wanted to. She was almost bought up by Don who managed to buy her into being his wife with gifts like the fur coat she mentioned in season 1. She was just a girl of 23 or 24 who wanted to be happy and mistakenly thought a housewife was her best option as he mother told her so when her best option was continue working the way she loved
@@chaoticnique9748 All the female viewers of this series hate Don. Its like Pavlov's dog. Watch Don with other women RING THE BELL. Watch women get irate THE DOG SALIVATES.
I dont think The situation was that clear cut, Sure Don cheated on his wife and Was an all around bastard and scumbag to betty but for all that people said about him and his life, he never abused their family unit and Really went all out when it came time to leave. All it would have hurt if betty didnt say anything was her pride.
This scene is one more example why this series is amazing. Fantastic acting by all of them, but Kiernan kills it. When she says “You said you would always come home”, you can feel the pain. Amazing acting, especially for a kid.
Don is a flawed individual who had a terrible childhood. I am surprised he even tried to live the American Dream with a family of his own. He was raised by wolves in a whore house. Betty knew he was from a poor up bringing because the way he handled money before they were married. If she would have asked him about his engineering degree and college his lie would have revealed itself before the marriage. She lied to herself because she wanted the pretty boy who was upwardly mobile, rich, and tall. I’m sure she was approached numerous times by the Poindexters, Joe Footballers, and Richie Riches at college and she turned them all down. She wanted the Chad (bad boy) and bagged him. Then she took his house kids and his money and monkey branched to a rich politician who she could dictate and chuckle. Hypergamy at its best. I don’t think anything worked out to well for either of them after the divorce. He has a mental breakdown in California and she dies of lung cancer. If you are Tiger Woods, Colby, Arnold Swartzenager etc there will be bus loads of Swedish bikini models throwing themselves at you. Don Draper had that same problem but was raised in a whore house making it worse. The Swedish models don’t seem to throw themselves at the forklift driver at Home Depot. I guess lumber isn’t sexy. Bill Burr.
You know, I think Sally catching Don cheating on Meagan was probably the best thing for her. She completely idolized her father but seeing him for who he really was gave her the chance to better understand Betty and to see how things in the world really are. I know it was traumatic but my best guess is that as she got older, she would appreciate everything both her parents did for her (she even reconciled with both of them by the end of the series) and she certainly wouldn't be as naïve as Betty was.
It certainly made her stronger. As sad as it is, given the circumstances, it was the best thing that could've happened, assuming you couldn't change the actions of others.
@@RaptorJesus The sad fact is that she grew up in the 60s and 70s. She was going to encounter a lot Don Drapers, Pete Campbells, and Roger Sterlings in her life. Hopefully she had better sense after this to fall for them.
@@henrypeters5291 While undoubtedly and horrifically true, I'd like to give the "Rogers" a little bit of credit. They, at least, if you showed some spark, would treat you as an equal. Look at how he treated Peggy. He could look past her gender, and his ingrained, taught sexism and came to respect her as an individual. Not saying that excuses it, but that it at least shows that *some* amongst the generation were capable of something beyond just what they'd been taught.
@@RaptorJesus That's fair, but at the end of the day, Don was right about Roger, he mistook happiness for foolishness. His relationship with Marie probably was good for him but he spread misery through Margo's and Jane's lives (though Jane deserved it and Margo still grew up wealthy)
@@felixeisenstein6726 My brother and his former wife did that to their three kids (10 to 16 yrs at the time) a couple of weeks before the 25th, and I thought that was bad enough...two days from the day sounds absolutely dreadful! Personally, I think parents should just wait it out until at least the 6th of January, after the tree comes down.
This scene is just tragically excellent. It really does such a good job of showing who the real losers are in every divorce: the kids. I've had friends whose parents have gone through divorces and it absolutely wrecked their lives. They went from being the poster children for success at their respective prep schools to becoming dismal failures. I think so much of it comes from the fact that, inevitably, the children blame themselves somehow for a divorce. Being someone who has never experienced it, I can't say why that is, but I've seen it to be true all the same.
This scene made me really cry. I've been going through this in their age, and there's nothing more painful than this. It leaves a trial in life forever. It's really hard on anyone, especialy kids. In the end, only thing you want in life is your kids don't go through this like you. That's why I love Mad Men. Every situation looks so real. That's why they're sucha high class show.
i LOVE Betty and i love what January does with the character. i love how she furrows her brow in reaction to Sally saying, "You said you would always come home". That was a splendid dramatic moment. Betty was always the most interesting character to me. Joan would be next up.
Man this was one tough scene. I can remember being 10 years old and my parents telling me this in 1977. It's tough on a kid. You always feel it was your fault. And you don't realize the effects until you are older. The acting out. The sadness. It's a tragedy. And I'm not overstating.
Re-watch season 1...Betty was anything but a frigid b----. She wanted Don there all the time, wanted to be with him and be everything for him...to the point that it made her physically sick that he couldn't/wouldn't be faithful to her and their family.
Bearded Pete I think tried to be a good father but his demons wouldn’t let him. I lot of times he would let his kids alone for work or woman, but when he was with them he was a good dad. And he was always fair with them, never hit any of them (especially because of what he had being through was a kid). Betty on the hand, she was always there but she was mean. She confused being hard line with being mean, especially with Sally. For instance, when Sally cut her own hair and Betty slapped her. Kids do those things. So Don was a bad parent for not being present enough and Betty because she didn’t treat them well.
I'm five years younger than Sally, she could have been my older sister. My parents never divorced (might not have been a bad arrangement, sad to say) but I can remember how my father would sit me and my brother down for a talk in the bedroom. This would be to say that we were moving again to another state. It was made into a somber, solemn occasion with a speech from my father. This scene reminds me of my past and Don even looks like my father. Also like Don my father had no business being a parent. The only thing here that doesn't resonate with me is that if my father and mother separated I would never have run to my father saying I didn't want him to go. It was always a relief when he wasn't around. A remarkable scene here: I didn't quite have it in my own life but I can feel the believability.
Yeah, on New Years Eve my mother told me I was going to help her move to her new apartment that night. First I heard of it. "Oh.... OK..." That was the last time anyone said anything about it.
Not quite. He says that he is pretending to love them, but there are moments when that feeling that he is pretending becomes real. For example, when Bobby and him are at the movies in season 6. Or when Sally told Don that she loves him in season 7. In both of those scenes, you can truly see in his face an expression of love.
Don was an orphan, for all intents and purposes. He lacked any actual experience of love. Maybe a Hershey bar. Or a hand job from the girls at the whore house where his caretakers lived. It's not an excuse for infidelity, b it does support why he doesn't think sex is that big of a deal. Betty had actual parents and she is no shining example of child rearing. Of course she is doing it alone
@@pavanatanaya Betty's mother, though, is said to have all of the flaws we see in Betty's parenting, and I think I remember Betty saying her father would hit them someitmes, so she didn't have great examples
You need to hang around while the kids are still young unless the wife is either truly evil or unbearable. Betty was definitely neither of these two. For Don to go away to live on his own was not a good option.
Don may have ruined the marriage, but Betty is the one forcing him to move out, so it's her fault. Maybe I could have understood it if being apart from Don had improved her as a mother, or him as a father, but it didn't. She wanted Don out for selfish reasons. During the '60's, getting a divorce was so scandalous, you wouldn't do it even if your husband was a womaniser. So by the standards of the time, I'd say Betty was in the wrong. She should have told him how it was going to be, no sharing a bed, no physical affection, and an equal partnership. They'd sleep in seperate rooms but live under the same roof to raise their children together, and ensure their children percieved them, if not as a loving couple, then as a united team playing for the same goal, with mutual respect for one another as mother and father of their children.
Don does not give a shit about his kids. He was practically and absentee father. Sally needs a pop in the mouth sometime. Betty is a snot nose, stuck up bitch. Poor little Bobby.
Yeah what a crappy person to not put up with the lies and multiple affairs in exchange for some worldly goods. That’s what makes a good marriage multiple affairs.
Good to see that this comment section is filled with people who are more chaste the The Church Lady herself. No one in here has never 'cheated', nor even thought about it. Puritans here, and for adultery Don deserves to go to hell. Yeah, I get it.
I am far from liking Betty, and agree that she isn't mom of the year! But what Don did to Betty was worse than what she did to him. He cheated (first, and more than her), he lied, he made her feel like a child, spied on her through her psychiatrist, got mad at her when his boss pawed her, and just generally very rarely considered her feelings. Betty struck me as a deeply unhappy woman. I think this unhappiness is what affects her relationship with the kids, and Don's partly to blame for that.
I definitely agree. I think deep down Betty isn't a bad person at all, she would be far from that. I think her treating her children badly was only situational (but it doesn't make it anything less to the children)
Betty never should have married Don. Her mother brainwashed her into thinking she was a good little housewife but the truth is she wanted a career and life beyond home. She was happy when a model and living in manhatten. Thats where she should have been and had kids and got married later on if she wanted to. She was almost bought up by Don who managed to buy her into being his wife with gifts like the fur coat she mentioned in season 1. She was just a girl of 23 or 24 who wanted to be happy and mistakenly thought a housewife was her best option as he mother told her so when her best option was continue working the way she loved
@@shanehughes3511 Oh, poor Betty! i'm almost crying! such brave little girl!
It's hard to not treat Betty like a kid since she acts like one.
She IS a child.
I'm definitely on Betty's side. She had her flaws but Don was an all around terrible person. This is his fault.
Don is the bad guy of all series, that for sure.
@@Mozarz For real?
Unsubbed lol
@@chaoticnique9748 All the female viewers of this series hate Don.
Its like Pavlov's dog.
Watch Don with other women RING THE BELL.
Watch women get irate THE DOG SALIVATES.
I dont think The situation was that clear cut, Sure Don cheated on his wife and Was an all around bastard and scumbag to betty but for all that people said about him and his life, he never abused their family unit and Really went all out when it came time to leave. All it would have hurt if betty didnt say anything was her pride.
This scene is one more example why this series is amazing. Fantastic acting by all of them, but Kiernan kills it.
When she says “You said you would always come home”, you can feel the pain. Amazing acting, especially for a kid.
it's is don's fault--he wouldn't stop pulling his pants down
Firecriss that and he lied about who he was
Don is a flawed individual who had a terrible childhood. I am surprised he even tried to live the American Dream with a family of his own. He was raised by wolves in a whore house. Betty knew he was from a poor up bringing because the way he handled money before they were married. If she would have asked him about his engineering degree and college his lie would have revealed itself before the marriage. She lied to herself because she wanted the pretty boy who was upwardly mobile, rich, and tall. I’m sure she was approached numerous times by the Poindexters, Joe Footballers, and Richie Riches at college and she turned them all down. She wanted the Chad (bad boy) and bagged him. Then she took his house kids and his money and monkey branched to a rich politician who she could dictate and chuckle. Hypergamy at its best. I don’t think anything worked out to well for either of them after the divorce. He has a mental breakdown in California and she dies of lung cancer.
If you are Tiger Woods, Colby, Arnold Swartzenager etc there will be bus loads of Swedish bikini models throwing themselves at you. Don Draper had that same problem but was raised in a whore house making it worse. The Swedish models don’t seem to throw themselves at the forklift driver at Home Depot. I guess lumber isn’t sexy. Bill Burr.
The way Sally says "you can't just do that", god my mortal heart is on fire
You know, I think Sally catching Don cheating on Meagan was probably the best thing for her. She completely idolized her father but seeing him for who he really was gave her the chance to better understand Betty and to see how things in the world really are. I know it was traumatic but my best guess is that as she got older, she would appreciate everything both her parents did for her (she even reconciled with both of them by the end of the series) and she certainly wouldn't be as naïve as Betty was.
It certainly made her stronger. As sad as it is, given the circumstances, it was the best thing that could've happened, assuming you couldn't change the actions of others.
@@RaptorJesus The sad fact is that she grew up in the 60s and 70s. She was going to encounter a lot Don Drapers, Pete Campbells, and Roger Sterlings in her life. Hopefully she had better sense after this to fall for them.
@@henrypeters5291 While undoubtedly and horrifically true, I'd like to give the "Rogers" a little bit of credit. They, at least, if you showed some spark, would treat you as an equal. Look at how he treated Peggy. He could look past her gender, and his ingrained, taught sexism and came to respect her as an individual. Not saying that excuses it, but that it at least shows that *some* amongst the generation were capable of something beyond just what they'd been taught.
@@RaptorJesus That's fair, but at the end of the day, Don was right about Roger, he mistook happiness for foolishness. His relationship with Marie probably was good for him but he spread misery through Margo's and Jane's lives (though Jane deserved it and Margo still grew up wealthy)
@@henrypeters5291 I wholly agree.
It's such a cruel but genuine touch for the kids to blame themselves, and eventually Betty, but never Don.
I cried when I watched this scene. What's really sad, is that this takes place just before Christmas.
this scene hit me hard because my parents split two days before christmas at sally’s age.
@@felixeisenstein6726 My brother and his former wife did that to their three kids (10 to 16 yrs at the time) a couple of weeks before the 25th, and I thought that was bad enough...two days from the day sounds absolutely dreadful! Personally, I think parents should just wait it out until at least the 6th of January, after the tree comes down.
This scene is just tragically excellent. It really does such a good job of showing who the real losers are in every divorce: the kids. I've had friends whose parents have gone through divorces and it absolutely wrecked their lives. They went from being the poster children for success at their respective prep schools to becoming dismal failures. I think so much of it comes from the fact that, inevitably, the children blame themselves somehow for a divorce. Being someone who has never experienced it, I can't say why that is, but I've seen it to be true all the same.
That’s very sensible of you
If you do crappy at school then it’s your fault not your parents! As a student it’s up to you to keep up with your studies
This scene made me really cry. I've been going through this in their age, and there's nothing more painful than this. It leaves a trial in life forever. It's really hard on anyone, especialy kids. In the end, only thing you want in life is your kids don't go through this like you.
That's why I love Mad Men. Every situation looks so real. That's why they're sucha high class show.
Exactly.
@@animalfinatic9366 “high class”? That phrase makes me cringe.
@@dewilew2137 That's too bad
i LOVE Betty and i love what January does with the character. i love how she furrows her brow in reaction to Sally saying, "You said you would always come home". That was a splendid dramatic moment. Betty was always the most interesting character to me. Joan would be next up.
I’ve just rewatched this and it absolutely breaks my heart.
Man this was one tough scene. I can remember being 10 years old and my parents telling me this in 1977. It's tough on a kid. You always feel it was your fault. And you don't realize the effects until you are older. The acting out. The sadness. It's a tragedy. And I'm not overstating.
He totally made Betty the bad guy to the kids here by telling them that it is temporary
Yeah, I cried here, sue me.
Don never had a positive male role model tho except the hobo lol
Re-watch season 1...Betty was anything but a frigid b----. She wanted Don there all the time, wanted to be with him and be everything for him...to the point that it made her physically sick that he couldn't/wouldn't be faithful to her and their family.
Let's just agree that they are both awful parents
Untrue, Don is a terrible person but he is good to his kids, 100 times better than Betty
Bearded Pete I think tried to be a good father but his demons wouldn’t let him. I lot of times he would let his kids alone for work or woman, but when he was with them he was a good dad. And he was always fair with them, never hit any of them (especially because of what he had being through was a kid).
Betty on the hand, she was always there but she was mean. She confused being hard line with being mean, especially with Sally. For instance, when Sally cut her own hair and Betty slapped her. Kids do those things.
So Don was a bad parent for not being present enough and Betty because she didn’t treat them well.
I feel bad for the kids
@@PedroOrdep-kv5vw idk man, Sally wanted to be close to Don but Don kinda kept ignoring her until they're both divorced
“I only want one” 😭😭😭
I'm five years younger than Sally, she could have been my older sister. My parents never divorced (might not have been a bad arrangement, sad to say) but I can remember how my father would sit me and my brother down for a talk in the bedroom. This would be to say that we were moving again to another state. It was made into a somber, solemn occasion with a speech from my father. This scene reminds me of my past and Don even looks like my father. Also like Don my father had no business being a parent. The only thing here that doesn't resonate with me is that if my father and mother separated I would never have run to my father saying I didn't want him to go. It was always a relief when he wasn't around. A remarkable scene here: I didn't quite have it in my own life but I can feel the believability.
Betty was right. He did ruin all of this.
I like Sallys voice all through the series
Well done scene. Superbly challenging to watch
at least he did it better than my father..he just came home and asked me to help him pack..
@Zach Kabia That shit aint funny yo.
Mine gave me a piece of butterscotch candy and told me it was from Brenda. And that's all. 8 years old, 1969.
Yeah, on New Years Eve my mother told me I was going to help her move to her new apartment that night. First I heard of it. "Oh.... OK..." That was the last time anyone said anything about it.
@@shawni321 bruh.
Geez, this comment thread is depressing. I agree though, parents divorcing is the worst....
I'm glad my ex-wife and I didn't have kids. Things like this destroys them.
Watching this makes me sad considering Don just admitted he never really loved his children.
I’m sorry but when did he say that?
Not quite. He says that he is pretending to love them, but there are moments when that feeling that he is pretending becomes real.
For example, when Bobby and him are at the movies in season 6. Or when Sally told Don that she loves him in season 7. In both of those scenes, you can truly see in his face an expression of love.
Don was an orphan, for all intents and purposes. He lacked any actual experience of love. Maybe a Hershey bar. Or a hand job from the girls at the whore house where his caretakers lived. It's not an excuse for infidelity, b it does support why he doesn't think sex is that big of a deal.
Betty had actual parents and she is no shining example of child rearing. Of course she is doing it alone
@@pavanatanaya Betty's mother, though, is said to have all of the flaws we see in Betty's parenting, and I think I remember Betty saying her father would hit them someitmes, so she didn't have great examples
When Sally asked Betty “did you make him leave?”, Sally knew it; and when Sally said to Don”you said you always been home”, I crying nonstop.
This makes me remember my childhood. The most important time was when my father came home.
they were just better off on their own, but it sucks for the kids
This is sooooo sad to watch, especially Sally said” you said you always come home?” 😭😭😭😭😭
Don is emotionally shut off from the rest of the world.
Jared is sooooo cute!😍
She had every right to divorce him yes, But she is still a Selfish, Insensitive Jerk who is a terrible mother and Person
You need to hang around while the kids are still young unless the wife is either truly evil or unbearable. Betty was definitely neither of these two. For Don to go away to live on his own was not a good option.
Would you recommend this show?
The Pencil Skirt of course
The Pencil Skirt Highly
You wrote this comment one year ago, I hope by the time you read this comment you had already watched the whole show.
Your acting like she didnt cheat on him and be a terrible mother. No wonder when Don left Sally started acting up.
daughters and mothers rarely see eye to eye
he deserved to be cheated on. once doesn’t equate to the dozens of affairs he had
Esta si es Serie no chingaderas
Don is so selfish.
They're both selfish doing that to the kids right before Christmas.
Love the crocodile tears from Betty here.
And this type of shit is why I don’t do marriage
sally acting circles around betty
Don may have ruined the marriage, but Betty is the one forcing him to move out, so it's her fault.
Maybe I could have understood it if being apart from Don had improved her as a mother, or him as a father, but it didn't. She wanted Don out for selfish reasons.
During the '60's, getting a divorce was so scandalous, you wouldn't do it even if your husband was a womaniser. So by the standards of the time, I'd say Betty was in the wrong. She should have told him how it was going to be, no sharing a bed, no physical affection, and an equal partnership. They'd sleep in seperate rooms but live under the same roof to raise their children together, and ensure their children percieved them, if not as a loving couple, then as a united team playing for the same goal, with mutual respect for one another as mother and father of their children.
That would really mess up the kids' perception of marriage.
Betty is evil
For real. She made him sleep in Genes room and it’s scary in there.
@@rileyfreeman7122 and she left him after knowing he cheated on her multiple time and lying about everything since day one. What an evil woman.
I hated Betty so much all through season 4 because of this.
Don does not give a shit about his kids. He was practically and absentee father. Sally needs a pop in the mouth sometime. Betty is a snot nose, stuck up bitch. Poor little Bobby.
Betts is an ungreatful woman he tried to fix things when he took her to Rome and when he give her that charm and she acted so spoil.
She wasn't spoiled, she wanted what's real.
HE WOULDN'T STOP FUCKING OTHER PEOPLE HELLOOOOOO
Yeah what a crappy person to not put up with the lies and multiple affairs in exchange for some worldly goods. That’s what makes a good marriage multiple affairs.
Sorry dude, but once a cheater always a cheater...
Good to see that this comment section is filled with people who are more chaste the The Church Lady herself.
No one in here has never 'cheated', nor even thought about it.
Puritans here, and for adultery Don deserves to go to hell.
Yeah, I get it.