Stop Your Divorce and Save Your Marriage!

The Emotional Costs of Divorce

And what about the argument that divorce makes people happier after they leave a sad marriage?

Studies appear to suggest that this is a myth, because evidence points to the contrary.  According to the Institute of American Values, when divorced couples were rated with couples who stayed married on 12 parameters of psychological well-being, it was discovered that on average, couples who divorced were no happier five years after the divorce than were equally unhappily married couples who stayed together.[1]

There are other reasons why divorced individuals don’t end up happier:

•     Depression symptoms do not necessarily diminish with divorce, nor did divorce raise people’s self-esteem;

•     Unhappy marriages were less common than unhappy spouses;

•     Staying married did not typically trap unhappy spouses in violent relationships.[2]

Ms. Heines also raised the litigation aspect in most divorces.  She said that a significant number of married people usually want to settle their divorce with the least possible hassle, but divorce lawyers are a species to be reckoned with.  They come up with arguments to justify getting into World War III, and they drag out the paper work.

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