How To Tell Your Spouse You Want A Divorce

The scariest part of divorce isn’t the divorce itself, it’s telling the other person! Often, the person initiating has had the chance to contemplate the need for divorce, while the other is completely caught off guard. If you want to remain civil with your spouse and have a healthy divorce, there are a few things to take into consideration as you have that conversation.

What to Expect When You’re Getting a Divorce

Planning a separation and divorce can sweep the legs out from under you, especially when you have never been here before. But that does not mean the entire divorce process needs to be the same way as long as you can plan, be patient and more than anything else be realistic about what is going to happen next.

Picking The Right Social Supports During Divorce

Humans need social support systems to help us cope with stressful events or hard times in life. We all have those friends we run to when life gets tough to give us advise and to comfort us. But are they always the right type of social support during your divorce? It is extremely important to carefully choose your social supports because it can have an affect on your health and the success of the divorce process.

How to Live With Your Spouse AFTER You’ve Asked For A Divorce

The divorce conversation has just happened and you feel the need to take the kids and flee the stress-filled home. But, the only problem is, you can’t leave the matrimonial home until the settlement is done! The last thing you want to do is be anywhere near your spouse, let alone live with them, so how are you going to survive? 

Social Media and Divorce

Many people broadcast their entire lives on social media to family, friends, and even strangers. While social media has allowed us to make new connections with ease, it has also led to oversharing of information and, in some cases, even facilitated the downfall of relationships. Whether or not you are still connected to your ex-spouse online, social media can have serious implications on your divorce.

The Realities of Divorcing Young

Some people believe marrying young will give you a long life of fulfilling love, while others compare it to leaving a party at 9pm.  Statistically, the younger you marry the higher your chances of divorcing and in kind the younger you will be when you actually divorce. There is nothing wrong with divorcing at a young age but, unfortunately, there is a stigma attached to it. Here are some hard truths about young divorces.

Signs My Marriage is Over

When there is an affair, abuse or some kind of deceit, divorce seems obvious.  But what if there is none of these?  What if you are simply unhappy, tired or just “done?”

Is your marriage in a rut? Do you wonder if it’s just a rough patch or if there is something fundamentally wrong with your relationship? You are not alone. All marriages have their ups and downs, and everyone has their fair share of bad fights, but where do you draw the line and decide to separate? These signs will help you to determine whether your marriage is over.

Using Pregnancy to Save a Marriage From Divorce

Separation is a traumatic life event that can bring out a lot of raw human emotions. In order to avoid this outcome, many couples will seek other options, such as couples’ counselling. However, others, in moments of desperation, will go to the extremes of getting pregnant or getting their spouse pregnant as a way of locking them into the relationship. This is dangerous behaviour that rarely, if ever, has a positive affect on the situation. 

Adultery, Affairs and Divorce – What Cheating Means

In Canada, the only grounds needed for a divorce is the breakdown of a marriage. This can be proven in one of three ways: You and your spouse live separated and apart for one year, one spouse has been physically or mentally cruel to the other spouse, or a spouse has committed adultery.

When Your Spouse Tells You They Want a Divorce

Other than the rare occasion where both spouses are on the exact same page when it comes to their separation, you’ll fall into one of two categories: you’re either the ‘Leaver’ – the spouse who initiates the separation process, or the’ Leavee’ – the spouse who the news is broken to.