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James Walsh's Articles in Divorce

  • A Few Questions You Should Ask Your Partner before Tying the Knot
    Quite a few people, I know, had married after a courtship that lasted just a couple of months. These people were young, (barely in their 20s) who believed the strength of their love would overcome all odds. After a few years, just some of them were able to sustain their marriage, and even these successfully married people were found advising their children, never to marry without knowing their mate well.
  • A Woman's Survival Guide to the Year after Divorce
    It is a well established fact that a divorce can tear apart a person’s life. It can bring such drastic changes that his or her life may seem to turn upside down. There is little that one can do to avoid the changes that come naturally with the culmination of the divorce proceedings.
  • Changing Religious Attitudes
    Attitudes towards divorce keep changing as society progresses. Today, divorce is not a rare phenomenon but a common incidence. The institution of marriage is no longer considered sacred and a bond tying down people. The perceptions of marriage have changed and, consequently, religious attitudes towards divorce have also been forced to change.
  • Coping with the After-effects of Divorce
    After divorce, a mental churning takes place and you tend to go through many types of feelings. You may by turn feel angry, dejected, depressed, hurt, guilt-conscious, pitiful and anxious or uncertain about your future. This is because divorce is something that introduces profound changes in your life.
  • Divorce and Children
    It is becoming commonplace to be divorced, with hundreds of marriages falling apart everyday. However, despite its increasing acceptability and a rise in leaps and bounds of people divorcing, it is painful and an emotionally draining experience. Even if the marriage had been terrible and the best thing was to break away, a divorce seems to loom over divorcees like a sense of failure and the emotional wounds take time to heal.
  • Divorce Myths
    Superstitions die hard. There are people who still wait for the fairy folk in Ireland, stop if someone sneezes while going out for office, brake the car if a cat saunters across the driveway and never check in to room number thirteen.
  • Divorce Myths: A Matter of Perception
    Myths, norms and beliefs rule various issues in society. Myths influence the core issue of legal marital separation. These myths can be described as mere statements of general perception. They are usually baseless. They tend to garner support for one gender against the other.
  • Divorcing the Kids
    A divorce has many negative impacts. The documented adverse impact is seen on children. Divorce successfully changes their lives. It changes their relationship with their parents. The emotional bond gets severed. Children and parents usually drift apart.
  • Dynamics of Single Motherhood
    Single motherhood - a bane or a boon is a question that is difficult to answer!

    A woman can be a single mother as a result of various reasons. It could be that she opted for it consciously by reasons of divorce, adoption, artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood or extra-marital pregnancy.
  • Emotionally Recover from a Nasty Divorce
    Recently divorced people often describe the pain they feel to be akin to tearing apart, a part of self. Though the pain is severe, it is not strong enough to kill, but it makes a person incomplete and totally destabilises life.
  • Employment and Divorce
    The high rate of divorce is an accepted social condition in the UK today. There is no part of life left untouched by this all-encompassing phenomenon. The economic setup of the country has been affected by it too. It may be difficult to get the big picture at a go, but it is not difficult to understand that a recently divorced man won’t be able to concentrate on his job.
  • Extramarital Affairs and Divorce
    Marriage is a holy union that is based on love, trust, commitment, and respect. Marriage can easily lose its meaning if any of these is missing.
  • Financial Divorce Issues
    Divorce is a complicated process with severe emotional implications. Its first casualty is your family, home and your children. There are, however, many financial challenges associated with divorce. That is why it is important especially for women to know their rights and obligations. This knowledge protects one from future distress and makes the whole process less expensive if not less painful.
  • Financially Planning a Divorce
    Every aspect of life is inter-related. Changes in the economic conditions of a person have their repercussions felt on the psychological, physical and emotional health of a person. In such a scenario, it would not be wrong to point out that a divorce and the subsequent economic hardships negatively affect the well-being of all the family members concerned.
  • Growth of Divorce Rates
    Divorce rates are growing by leaps and bounds. This trend is not unique to UK alone which has earned the distinction of being termed the ‘divorce capital of Europe.’ Across continents, nations are witnessing a sudden spurt in marital breakdowns.
  • Has Your Partner Become a Control Freak?
    A marriage is supposed to be a relationship wherein two people love, respect, and care for each other. However, how do you live in a marriage when your partner does not have any respect for whatever you say or do? How will it feel to be constantly looked down upon by your partner?
  • How to Break the News to Your Small Children That You are Divorcing
    When a family stays together, they build a lot of hopes, dreams, and plans. To a child, his or her family becomes the most important aspect in the world. The family home becomes a protective nest that shields the child in tough times. Therefore, when the family falls apart, the child’s entire world falls apart. Divorce can be a tough time for children.
  • How to Cope with the Emotional Struggle of a Child Custody Battle
    When a group of parents was asked to describe their love towards their children, they struggled for a proper expression. Their struggle to communicate, communicated their feelings louder than words.
  • Impulsive Divorce
    The last few decades had been an era of divorces. People first rushed headlong into marriage. If things failed to work out, they rushed out of it. Such couples who divorced impulsively failed to realise that marriage is synonymous with hard work. Both the marital partners have to put in extreme effort to sustain it through the years.
  • Infidelity
    In the present day society, infidelity has become very common. In the majority of marriages, at least one partner strays outside the relationship. Few events cause as much turmoil in a marriage as infidelity.
  • Infidelity in Men
    Many argue that infidelity is not a cause of separation or divorce, but a manifestation of other problems in the marriage. Another aspect of infidelity is about the prevalence of men indulging in it as compared to women.
  • Is the High Divorce Rate Accelerating Global Warming?
    Divorce affects not just the divorcing couple and their family, but has an indirect effect on the environment as well. Researchers have found out that an increase in the rate of divorce leads to global warming. Does it sound unbelievable?
  • Life after Divorce
    We completely understand your situation. Life after divorce is never going to be the same. But, at least, it does not mean the end of the road. Having said that, let us analyse now the ways in which life is bound to change after divorce.
  • Life Goes on After Divorce
    A divorce is an event that profoundly affects every aspect of one’s life. Its effect is more far-reaching than child birth, and can be more profound than death. But life needs to go on always.
  • Life with a Single Parent
    My mother divorced my father, an army man, when I was 12. Even today, after two long decades, I know not, why they had divorced. It was a distressing period and the only positive recollection I have, was the stoic handling of the situation by my mother. She never spoke about the divorce and made every effort to come to terms with reality.

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