- Emotional Divorce: when the couple emotionally detaches themselves, they become less devoted
- Legal Divorce: when the courts decide the couple is no longer married
- Economic Divorce: this includes child support and spousal support
- Co-Parental Divorce: this is where custody is decided, legal and physical custody
- Community Divorce: one person loses friends and has to go make new ones by themselves, no more mutual friends
- Psychic Divorce: when the couple accepts that they are really, officially divorced
We also talked about how women are less likely to re-marry after being divorced and the reasons we though of for that are:
- kids: people may think that is too much, they don't want "baggage"
- time: being a single mom and having a job doesn't leave a lot of free time for a woman to go out on dates or even have a girls night, she is constantly being a mom
- guilt: if/when a single mom goes out she may feel guilty that she is away from the kids
- negative associations: new men to date could bring up bad memories or sad times from previous relationships
Hearing these things and talking with my classmates about stories and things we've seen in our own lives made me realize how common divorce really is. It also made me grateful for my parents and the fact that they've been together for so long and that they will be together forever.
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