Divorce
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How to Stop a Separation Before It Happens
When faced with a separation you don’t want, it’s easy to panic and make the situation worse. If you can avoid some pitfalls and make some changes, you may still be able to prevent your spouse from moving out. The downward slide to separation happens in most cases due to a breakdown in communication. Feelings of being misunderstood and not appreciated are common. When unexpressed feelings accumulate, they begin to poison a relationship. It can become challenging to even have a normal conversation without it triggering a reaction. If you want to stop a separation, you need to get rid of the communication obstacles that are affecting your intimacy. …
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How This Professor is Predicting Divorces With 94% Accuracy
John Gottman was born in 1942. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington. Gottman has been studying marital stability and divorce for over four decades. He is the founder of the “Love Lab” at the University of Washington, where he conducted a lot of research about married couples and their interactions. Gottman is able to predict divorce with 94% of accuracy because he has discovered patterns in how spouses in marriages relate to each other. He then used his discoveries to predict whether a marriage would succeed or fail. For years Gottman suggested teaching married couples proper communication skills such as listening, speaking one person at…
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When Her Ex-Husband Married Another Woman, She Wrote Her THIS
A woman named Candice Curry wrote a letter to the new wife of her ex-husband, Ashley Parrish. It quickly went viral. littlechurchmouse.com “To my daughter’s stepmom. I never wanted you here. You simply were never part of the plan. Growing up and dreaming of my family I never included you. I didn’t want help from another woman to raise my child. I doubt you planned to mother a child that you didn’t give birth to. I can bet that your plan for your family included you, daddy and your children together, not me or my daughter. I can almost bet that when you dreamed of becoming a mother it would…
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7 Strong Steps to Stop a Divorce
Many spouses ignore for years the alarms of discontent that their partner has been ringing. None of the complaints sounded like they might end up being causes for divorce. When their spouse “suddenly” announces that he or she is moving out, wants to end the marriage, or even has filed already for divorce, the ground below shakes like an earthquake. Is there any way, at that last-ditch point, to stop a divorce? Ted announced on Friday to his wife Maria (names changed for confidentiality) that he wanted a divorce. Maria was shocked. She had no idea that her husband had been so unhappy. Yes, he had complained of this and…