Can having single friends impact your divorce probability? Well, according to a study that came out in 2010, divorce can lead to more divorce. Apparently, the heated emotions and actions of the break-up can spread to the divorcing couple’s friends and family, sometimes even a couple of degrees separated, like…
How Much to Compromise in a Marriage Before It Is Too Much? Compromise in a marriage is indispensable, and many self-help books and wisdom from pieces of relationship advice reiterate this. Marriage, after all, is the union of two unique individuals with different personalities, habits, tastes, preferences, and values. That…
While the decision to end a marriage is never easy, this already-difficult process can become even more frustrating and complex if your partner doesn’t want a divorce. Hiring a divorce attorney may seem like the only way to get your intentions across, but it can also worsen the situation instead…
Same-sex divorce or not, ending a romantic relationship is always difficult. This becomes even more challenging if the same-sex union has multiple registrations. What do we mean by this? Take, for example, a couple that is registered as domestic partners in Nevada. They later moved to Hawaii and registered as…
If you know the effects of a make-up and break-up cycle, then you’ll understand why there is a need for it to stop. Especially when this happens to married couples, the ill effects are usually long-term. In psychology, this break-up and make-up cycle is called “relationship cycling”. Not surprisingly, even…
Divorce and the high road are often difficult to align with one another. As Dr. Sherrie Campbell notes in an article for Huffington Post, “When divorced couples share children there is no ending to the relationship which makes moving on difficult because the children bind ex’s together for life.” “We…
Journaling through divorce can be difficult for so many reasons. Maybe you were a shop/agri person in high school and just hate the idea of writing anything. Maybe the emotions of your divorce are too hard to confront in such a direct manner. No matter which walk of life you’re…
Divorce can often leave you feeling kicked around and defeated by life. Whether you are the one who decided to file for divorce or the one the papers are filed against, you are likely to experience dark times of frustration and self-doubt. In order to overcome these, you need some words…
With the New Year encroaching, it’s time to decide if you want to file for divorce or continue working on the marriage. This is a common scenario for people in distressed marriages. Many choose to wait to make a decision until after the holidays are over. If that’s where you…