You hear a lot of different things about marriage and divorce statistics. Half of all marriages end in divorce. Marriage rates are declining. Etc., etc., etc. But Randy Olson, a self-described “data tinkerer,” has laid it all out for us from just before 1870 to the present day using statistics…
Infidelity is one of the oldest problems that marriages face. Each year a staggering number of husbands and wives are unfaithful to one another, and many jump straight from their marriage into a new relationship with their affair partner. Big mistake. Infidelity is never a good “way out” of marriage…
If you read the headline, this may seem like it’s going to be another trendy list-based piece, but allow me to bury that notion right off. The five words we’re talking about are not damaging because they are individual units, but because of the way they can be used together.…
Taking your marriage for granted is inevitable at some point in the life span of a relationship. The results can range from marriage-ending distance to an unwillingness to change your status quo for the better. In other words, you either stay together for years in an unhappy marriage, or you…
Divorce can cause a lot of turmoil for you financially the longer it goes on and the more combative that it gets. While financial differences are the leading causes of divorce, they’re also responsible for most of the stress that you’ll feel as you try to put your life back…
No parent sets out to take divorce out on their children, but that is often what happens amid particularly bitter divorces. It’s something that Rosalind Sedacca sees all too often as evidenced in her post for Moving Past Divorce. “The results can be devastating — not only for the ‘target’ parent, but…
Divorce has long been thought of as having detrimental effects on the health of people who experience it, but a new study emanating from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found that divorcees are able to recover their health just fine. In fact, when…
Dr. Jennifer Landa recently posed the question of whether a marriage without sex can still be healthy in a piece for Prevention. Because couples basically accept that sexual activity decreases after marriage, there are cases where husbands and wives swear off sex altogether and manage to stay married. Even so,…
It’s often uncomfortable to link children to the cause of your divorce. After all, they didn’t ask to be brought in to the world, and they’re often what you make of them. Therefore, it comes across as unfair and disingenuous to put the responsibility on them. However, there are some…
Explaining divorce to your children can be an incredibly difficult thing, especially considering that in doing so, you’re likely breaking a lot of new personal ground. A slight majority of divorces involve people, who have at least one child, and it’s usually their first divorce, so on top of trying…