Divorce,Relationships & Family

How to Cope With Divorce (Real Examples)09 Sep

Getting over divorce is never easy. Still, there are a lot of people that have gone through it and survived well, living to tell their stories. A 36 year old man from Michigan speaks about how his five years marriage ended after a long period of misunderstandings and lack of communication with his wife. He talks about how he found his stuff in front of the house one day when he got back from college, after having an argument with his wife the day before. This was made even more difficult, he says, by the very fact that he had no place to go to and no money to spend. His wife presented him with the cruel reality of divorce.

In order to get ahead, he had to call his mother and ask her for help, but not before taking into consideration the very idea that his life was over and it ending it could be a solution. Although the inevitable happened and he got divorced, despite the fact that he insisted to deny the problems in his… Read More

Divorce,Relationships & Family

How to Get a New Perspective in Life After Going Through a Divorce (Real Examples)09 Sep

Lauren

Being in a relationship changes one’s whole perspective on life. Sometimes, one is so embedded in a relationship, in their marriage, that nothing else seems to matter. Lauren’s story on her own divorce is a tell about how to begin a new life departing from an ending, that of a marriage. She speaks about how she never considered divorce as an option and how she strived to save appearances for the sake of those around her, but also about how she could not bear anymore her constant need for new experiences. It was a very difficult step for her to take, especially due to the fact that with the years she grew to be very conservative and very keen to preserving her marriage. Still, she found the necessary courage and she left her marriage, rebuilding her life.

After the divorce, she left her old job, which seemed just too safe and too easy for her, and she went in a pursuit for her happiness on a whole new level. Getting divorced allowed her to gain… Read More

Divorce,Relationships & Family

How to Manage the Divorce Experience (Real Examples)09 Sep

David

It is never easy to face the fact that your forever after can end only after a few years. This doesn’t mean that people’s lives are over once they go through this kind of experience. David is a living proof of this. His story goes something like this: he was married for twenty years and his marriage, just like anyone else’s had its ups and downs.

He thought about getting a divorce two years after getting married, but his daughter came along and they decided to give it another shot. Still, the last years were very unhappy for him and he felt like he was ready to start it all over again, to rebuild his life from zero. But the divorce came as news for him too, and it became more and more clear when he came back from Korea, in 2007, were he had accepted a job teaching English.

The ending of the divorce brought along with it a new life and a new home, moving in with an old friend. It is a whole new lifestyle that he… Read More

Divorce,Relationships & Family

How to Get Over Divorce (Real Examples)09 Sep

Mari

Maintaining a marriage working is a very difficult thing, given the fact that there are two people involved in it, with different personalities and aspirations, and, in many cases, there are also the children who are caught in this chaos. Mari talks about her divorce experience and how she realized that after eight years of being married, her and her husband found out their paths in life were way to different for them to keep staying together. So she got the divorce and stayed friends with her ex husband.

The part that was the most difficult for her was making this news public. Being a child of divorced parents herself, she was very worried about how people around her would react when they found out about this news: that her marriage was over and her status had changed. Being a business woman, she kept asking herself if this kind of news was something that she wanted people to know or no. But as months went by, she realized that not only had her own views on marriage and divorce… Read More