Divorce Magazine

Since 1996 Divorce Magazine has been the Internet's leading website on divorce and separation. We provide advice about divorce law, divorce lawyers, family law, custody, support and other divorce related issues along with a directory of divorce professionals.

 

Emotional Issues

How Can I Minimize The Financial And Emotional Pain Of Divorce?

The best way to minimize the financial and emotional pain of a divorce is to try to separate the emotional issues from the business issues associated with dividing your estate. While this is often difficult to do in most cases when the parties focus on the needs of the children and the typical schedule that […]

What are some tips for handling my divorce mentally and emotionally?

Dr. Ronit Lami, a psychologist in Beverly Hills, answers: We enter our marriage thinking it will be forever, but somewhere along the way it doesn’t go exactly how we imagined it, and we find ourselves in the process of divorce. “Why?” we ask. After all we have invested in our marriage (time, energy, our whole […]

If you are thinking about or going through divorce… Part 2

  Continued from Part 1 Remember that adjusting to any kind of change takes time. The therapist can help you learn how to enter this new phase in your life with minimal struggle. Here are examples of real cases: Case Example 1 Sharona and Ben, in their late 20’s and early 30’s, childless, came to […]

How long will the feelings of sadness last?

  The grief experience is not linear, and there is no right way to go through it to mourn the loss of a marriage. It is difficult to know how long it will last. It is said that it usually takes one year to recover from a loss, but it takes longer to completely regain […]

How can you understand the chaotic feelings during a divorce?

  Divorce is like grief, and when we grieve there is no right way to do so; nobody grieves ‘correctly’. The experience is chaotic and circular. Although there is the occurrence of identifiable feelings (such as shock, denial, anger, fear, disbelief, and acceptance), there is not an identifiable linear order to cope with these feelings, […]

How can you help your children cope with the divorce?

  The two most important components that will help your kids cope with the separation of the two most significant people in their lives is providing them with stability and structure. In general, it is good for kids to learn to be flexible; however, when it comes to a time of divorce, when many adjustments […]

What can I do to better endure the process of divorce? – Part 1

  It is not a secret that divorce elicits many emotions that we might have not experienced before, feelings we DO NOT WANT to experience, nor do we know what to do with them. There is sufficient evidence showing that the spectrum of emotions most experienced include anger, hurt, sadness, confusion, frustration, denial and resentment. […]

What can I do to better endure the process of divorce? – Part 2

“Remember: your past is not your future, but your present will be, so make sure it is a good one by making a decision to start feeling good NOW! – Part 2” You can use various techniques to raise your vibration (emotions and thoughts). Decisions that are made when we are in a positive state […]

css.php Skip to content