Quotes About Divorce

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.

The single-parent family, far from being a modern problem, existed at close to today's level for much of this country's history—because of accidents, illness, and high mortality rates, rather than divorce. In 1930, there were more than three million female-headed households.)

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

If I had your inhibitions", she went on, "we'd never get anywhere. As it is we've dragged one truth to light. If you were in Guy's position you mightn't allow yourself to be divorced because you really do believe in your heart of hearts that marriage is a sacrament." Honesty made him interrupt, "I feel it ought to be".

Here in London, however, without the manacle of her tragedies, divorced even from her name, her identity feels so light it might simply float away.

Marriage is sacred. And the Bible says that God hates divorce. He hates it because he wants better for you. He never intended for you to have a broken marriage of a broken home. He loves you.

IF a couple wants to increase to a near-certainty their likelihood of divorcing once they do marry, then live together before marriage. And to improve dramatically their chances of avoiding divorce, all they have to do is not do something.

To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day of the cynics, the critics, and the pickle-suckers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes a catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.

It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must believe that it is possible) must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church.

You don't divorce simply because your spouse has a number of qualities you dislike and on occasions makes your life uncomfortable. If you are reasonable, you view divorce as a measure of last resort. There are many steps you can take in the meantime. You might even call in a trained mediator.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

Stacey Napp understands the ugly side of divorce - which is often the side that involves money. In fact, she understands it so well that in 2008 she started a business, Balance Point Divorce Funding, which invests in divorce and probate litigation, helping clients cover costs in exchange for a share of the winnings.

'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.

Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just tried harder.

Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless … or useful.

When I got divorced I was so happy. I love to be spontaneous, I was enjoying my freedom.

When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining power of whichever spouse is more interested in continuing the relationship. And the breakup of such marriages has caused pain for many families.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.