According to author Kathleen Gerson, in her 2010 study The Unfinished Revolution, close to 75 percent of women would rather file for divorce and go it alone than forsake their careers to become homemakers. Meanwhile, Gerson adds, men and women are in near-lockstep to preferring an egalitarian marriage (or one…
Divorce Magazine recently pointed to a study that was published in the Family and Conciliation Court Review in 1992. Unfortunately, the age of the study cannot tell us much regarding current trends, but according to findings from 1,669 mediation sessions conducted in California family courts, it was determined that parents…
Reaching the decision to file for divorce isn’t something to be taken lightly. Once you go down this path, you have to be prepared for fallout, such as changes in parenting techniques, pushback from your spouse over the settlement, and possibly having your family dragged through a lengthy and revealing…
In an episode of the hit TV series “Seinfeld,” Jerry is dating a woman, whom he ends up breaking it off with over the way she ate her peas. “She eats her peas one at a time,” Seinfeld tells best bud George Costanza. “I’ve seen her eat corn niblets, but…
In a recent article for Huffington Post, contributor Aunt Becky for CafeMom’s The Stir detailed the eight signs that it may be time to take a break from your relationship. Most of the signs that Becky shared are usually indicative of problems in a marriage and can be factors in…
Divorce parties: once you’ve finalized your divorce papers, this may be the last thing that you’re thinking about, but that trend is changing. In Las Vegas, for instance, Glynda Rhodes, founder of The Divorce Party Planner, has seen a robust market. “It’s about creating a new chapter in your life,”…
Fashion and style aren’t things we talk a lot about on this blog, and that’s probably to our detriment. After all, how you look and feel about yourself will play a huge role in getting you past the painful part of finalizing divorce papers. So if you’ve recently gone through…
According to a recent article from CNN contributor Pepper Schwartz, there is a pronounced difference in the number of Baby Boomers and younger generations when it comes to filing divorce papers. Citing data from the New York Times, Schwartz said the overall divorce rate had fallen from 50 percent to…
Every time someone comes to our site looking for help on how to file for divorce, the story is usually the same. When they got married, they had no idea the marriage would end in divorce. So many relationships start out new and exciting but when the honeymoon is over,…
While there is no clear recipe for how to have a long lasting marriage, we do know quite a bit more than we used to by analyzing data among those who’ve taken the plunge and managed to avoid filing divorce papers. Particularly successful are those marriages found in the northern…