Stages of a dying marriage

If you are contemplating divorce, you know that even just thinking about leaving your marriage may be scary or feel like a betrayal to your spouse, yourself, your family, and your friends. Knowing that many other couples get divorced every day doesn’t make it any less difficult when marital dissolution becomes a personal event.

Regardless of whether you tied the knot with the idea that you could divorce someday if things didn’t work out, or if you married believing that divorce would never be an option, you are now viewing your marriage—and your life—from a different perspective, one in which you are open to being unmarried to your spouse.

It would be highly unusual for a person to wake up one day and out of the blue say, “I want a divorce.” There is normally a whole series of events and emotional phases that one or both parties in a marriage experience before arriving at or even beginning to consider marital dissolution.

Regardless of your reason for coming to this place (you fought like cats and dogs, you changed but she didn’t, you’ve become tired of a certain behavior or

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