Deciding to end a marriage is not always an easy choice. In some cases, such as when there is abuse, the decision may seem all too clear. However, many marriage relationships simply break down over time, and a spouse may labor over whether he or she has good reason to...
You’re starting to think that you’d like to propose to your girlfriend because you feel like she’s the right one for you. You’re worried, though. You have assets that you’ll be bringing into your marriage that exceed hers. You earn much more than she does, too. On top...
Do you think your odds of divorce have been going up in recent months or years? There was a time when you never thought the relationship would end. Now you think that the end is just on the horizon. How did you get here? One reason may be if you and your partner are...
Your wedding vows probably included the phrase “in sickness and in health,” but what happens when illness actually does come to roost? It may depend on your gender and the seriousness of the illness as much as it does the strength of your marriage. Men are more likely...
Cynical people might view prenuptial agreements as couples essentially planning to fail. However, when you consider that a significant percentage of modern marriages end up in divorce, the desire to create a prenuptial agreement seems less cynical and more practical....
Study after study shows that women are vastly more likely than men to file for divorce. One study even went all the way back to 1825. Divorce has changed a lot in the last 200 years, but even those statistics showed that women filed in the majority of cases. Why does...
Divorce can alter a lot in a person’s life. There are many moving parts after you and your spouse have filed for a divorce. Changing too much too fast can put you in a terrible position. When your relationship with one another is rocky, you may get the urge to change...
Like many New Hampshire couples, you may have struggled through the previous year with feelings of disappointment and disillusionment. Perhaps you even made resolutions to go to counseling or to find other ways to improve your relationship with your spouse....
When parents with two or more children divorce, they may feel some sense of relief that their children have siblings to talk to and share the experience with. Indeed, in some ways, the experience can feel less lonely and stressful than it might for an only...
When you are going through a divorce and have children, the first thing on your mind is how you're going to shield them from the worst of it. You want them to grow up happy and healthy, and the idea of a divorce seems to threaten this. The thing you should know is...
