Blog Articles
Why a Midlife Crisis Can Sometimes Lead to Divorce
The often maligned or misunderstood midlife crisis is often more serious than many of us think. It's true that for some, it's little more than a brief season of youthful longing, harmless impulse spending, wrapped inside a shell of nostalgia and feelings of...
What are 4 Major Predictors of Divorce?
In our recent article 6 Signs You May Be Headed for Divorce, we discussed some behavioral markers that often signal major underlying relationship problems for married couples and sometimes push that divorce rate even higher. Today, we want to look at 4 predictors of...
What are the Five Stages of Divorce?
No matter how it happens or who initiates, divorce is always difficult to walk through. It takes time to work out the details, adjust to often significant life changes, and hopefully find a renewed sense of identity and emotional equilibrium. Similar to the stages of...
What are the hardest years of marriage?
Marriage is a beautiful thing, a profound and meaningful experience on so many levels. It's also incredibly difficult to navigate from time to time. In married life, we face a constantly changing interplay of hopes and expectations, personal growth, shifting...
Infidelity Uncovered: Signs Your Spouse Might Be Cheating
Continuing with our study of the impacts of infidelity on marriage, in this week's post, we'll look at some of the key signs of cheating (signs of infidelity), that often signal a current or impending extramarital affair. They may be subtle signs, more obvious...
Understanding Infidelity: Why is it so damaging and how do I deal with it?
Infidelity has and always will be one of the most disrupting and damaging things many couples face in marriage. The psychological effects can devastate a marital relationship or any kind of romantic relationship. The emotional pain of infidelity within committed...
What Percentage of marriages survive infidelity? (and what to do about it)
Despite the growth of new technologies and social norms, married couples today face the same concerns and struggles that couples have faced for centuries. A committed relationship takes a great deal of work, self-sacrifice, personal growth, vulnerability, open...
How do you recover from divorce financially?
As we recently discussed, divorce has a way of impacting us on several fronts, not only emotionally and relationally, but financially as well. Depending on how you define "recover" for yourself, it can take some individuals as many as 5 years to recover financially...
Financial Security: How do I protect myself financially from my spouse during divorce?
Divorce impacts us in so many ways. Our emotions are in upheaval. Our plans get turned upside down and reorganized. Oftentimes, we change the place we call home, move our children to different schools, and spend months assembling the pieces of our new life. One...
