Blogs Posts in Break Up category; 70 blog posts

Delaying divorce to save marriages

Conventional wisdom holds that about half of U.S. marriages end in divorce — and that most Americans wish the divorce rate were lower. Still, many are skeptical about whether we can lower the divorce rate without trapping more peopl [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

How To Get Over A Break Up?

Here are 7 practical steps to make the pain of dealing with a break up disappear as soon as possible. I’m hoping they’ll give you some ideas about how to get over a break up and turn surviving into thriving in the quickest wa [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

I Want To Overcome A Relationship Breakup Easily

I Want To Overcome A Relationship Breakup Easily: You don’t have to hide your head in the sand just because you recently had a breakup. Nearly everyone goes through a breakup some time in their life. There is nothing to be ashamed [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Effects of Divorce on Children

If the family is the building block of society, then marriage is the foundation of the family. However, this foundation is growing weaker, with fewer adults entering into marriage, more adults leaving it in divorce. Each year, over 1 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Breaking up is hard to do - especially in college

When a friend seems devastated at the end of a relationship, it’s not always just melodrama. A study recently released by the Northwestern Psychology Department proves that break-ups alter individuals’ self-concepts, lea [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Divorce's Effect on Teens

I’m going to my dad’s house this weekend,” is a phrase not uncommon to the teenage ear. In fact, it has become almost normal. Think about it. Everyone knows someone who is divorced/has divorced parents. Roughly 50% [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Until her sickness do us part - why men leave ill partners

Cancer was, says Lesley Forrester, far easier to deal with than her husband’s reaction to her diagnosis. “We had been together for ten years and I thought he was quite sensitive and caring, but he stunned me by becoming totally [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Breaking up for the kids' sake

A new study reports that stability may be more important for children than a traditional family structure, especially if mom and dad spend all their time fighting When Jon and Kate Gosselin filed for divorce, they challenged the notion that [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Cohabitation ups divorce

COUPLES living together before marrying have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait until they were engaged or married, according to research out on Tuesday in the Journal of Family Psychology. The study, carried ou [...]

Posted On : Jul, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Survive The 9 To 5 After A Breakup

Breaking up is hard to do especially when you have to go to work the next day. After spending an entire evening arguing with your, now ex-boyfriend, the last thing you want to do is deal with the idiots in accounting or the crazy client who [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

How NOT to survive a break up

Ahhh the joys of relationships. You meet each other and get acquainted with the butterflies in your stomach while gasping for oxygen as your heads float in the clouds. Love is in the air and you fall deeply, paying no attention to anyone o [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant in Divorce Shocker

Public figures divorce all of the time, but rarely are we moved to think: but why? They were so right for each other! But that was what we exclaimed this morning when reading about the difficult parting of ways between Stephanie Seymour and [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Surviving a Break-Up

Mourning Stage- In many relationships there comes a time when one or both members of the couple realize that they are not happy with the relationship anymore. If you're face to face with such a traumatic event, you basically have two cho [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

More on giving the boot

On yesterday's post about the "it's not you, It's me" break-up strategy, there were a fair amount of responses. In favor of it. "The point of the 'it's not you; it's me.' or 'I'm an a-hole' is to get it over with swiftly. It' [...]