No one wants to go through a divorce. No one enters a marriage expecting it to fail. Unfortunately, this sort of thing does happen. Statistically, 20% of first marriages end in divorce after the first five years and 48% of marriages end when they hit the twenty-year mark. It’s not always infidelity that leads to a couple splitting, sometimes couples can just grow apart over the years. People can change over the years; things can get in the way and sometimes you just end up being in a relationship because it’s a lot easier than facing the … [Read more...] about Healthy Divorce: How to Make Your Split go a lot Smoother
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Embrace The Positive Change: Being Happy After Divorce
When we go through something as traumatic as divorce, the thought of being happy can seem like a lifetime away. And when we are are going through this, we have to know at the outset that our life is going to change forever. But this doesn't mean that it's going to change for the negative. After a divorce, how can you ensure that you are happy? Put The Plans In Place Now You might still be going through the divorce process, or it's still incredibly raw, but if you start to look at focusing on yourself, you will see how far you’ve come a … [Read more...] about Embrace The Positive Change: Being Happy After Divorce
Six Ways to Protect Your Legal Rights During a Divorce
Divorces, whether amicable or contentious, can be quite emotionally taxing even without you having to worry about your partner infringing on your rights. To ensure that you are treated respectfully, and with dignity throughout the process, the bill of rights guarantees both parties a variety of rights that are further enforced by specific state laws. Whether your partner has shown real signs of their intention to take advantage of you or simply want to ensure that you get what you rightly deserve at the end of it all, here’s a few ways you … [Read more...] about Six Ways to Protect Your Legal Rights During a Divorce
Assistance and Acceptance: Finding Support During a Divorce
Going through a divorce can feel like an incredibly isolating experience. Fortunately, it does not need to be this way. With so many support avenues available following a relationship breakdown, you don’t have to go through it alone. Find acceptance during a divorce can be challenging. With competing emotions and significant changes to your personal life, it can be hard to find the time to take care of yourself and your emotions. Below are just some support avenues to reach out to, to help make the process easier. Legal Advice Proceeding … [Read more...] about Assistance and Acceptance: Finding Support During a Divorce
4 Lessons I Learned After Divorce
Post-divorce life is both physically and spiritually challenging. Some of us can’t help putting dwell in the past, where are memories are kept and where we lived all experiences, both good and bad. Many of us struggle with forgiveness, both when it comes to others and personal forgiveness. Letting go of the weight of the past is a critical step toward healing and growing after divorce but is very difficult for many of us to do. Accepting that changes that occurred learning to be true to yourself can help us move forward. How do we deal with … [Read more...] about 4 Lessons I Learned After Divorce
Divorce Tips for a Fast and Amicable Ending
Trashy TV shows would have us believe that divorce always has to end in tears. Vengeful wives who cut their spouses wardrobe to pieces, scratch their cars and do their darndest to take them for every penny they have and sneaky husbands who do everything in their power to hide their money and their indiscretions from the courts are common staples in fiction, but real life divorces don’t have to be like that - not if you don’t want them to anyway. If you've decided to get divorced, here are some quick tips to help you keep it all amicable: Put … [Read more...] about Divorce Tips for a Fast and Amicable Ending
Choosing Love: Life Lessons We Can All Learn From Blended Families
These days, many first-time marriages end in divorce. This doesn't mean that ex-spouses plan to stay single for the rest of their lives. Most divorced people, especially those with children, fall in love with a new partner and eventually choose to get married or move in together. Blending a family can be a real challenge, but it's certainly not impossible. Here are a few things we learned from successful blended families. Be Prepared To Learn As You Go Despite what comedy television shows purport, blending a family is not always funny. … [Read more...] about Choosing Love: Life Lessons We Can All Learn From Blended Families
Make Your Divorce a Little Easier
As they say, hindsight is 20/20. There’s no one better to tell you what you should and shouldn’t do during a divorce than people who have been there themselves. Whatever the course of the relationship has been like, divorce is never pleasant, and it can be hard to collect your thoughts and make the right decisions. Whether you’re in the midst of a divorce or just contemplating it, here’s some advice to make it as smooth as possible. The first thing you should come to terms with is that it may take a very long time to recover emotionally, and … [Read more...] about Make Your Divorce a Little Easier
