Essays: Divorce

by Jay Morgetron

My five-year-old daughter is hyper aware of divorce these days. In recent months three couples she knows rather well have decided to part ways or are struggling to decide whether or not they should stay together. The ot...read more

by Korrine Wojcik

My Father stopped seeing my sister and me when I was twelve years old. We adored our father, but his new family seemed very unpromising. Every weekend my father and his wife's brutality continued. We were welcomed with dis...read more

by Danny Mchatton

...that's when I knew it was over. It unfolded like a soap opera. Something created by a writer sitting in a room specifically to yank at the heartstrings of viewers in the most divisive way possible: and I was the st...read more

by Suzanne Marsh

Divorce is one of the most traumatic events that can occur in life. Webster's dictionary defines divorce as a split which it is it is a split between two people who married and pledged to remain so for the rest of their n...read more

by L. Beall

Divorce is deciding that forever doesn't happen. No matter how long you have been with someone and then drifted away from them it is never easy. Deciding to get divorced can take months or minutes depending on the situatio...read more

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by Jose Trujillo

The dictionary defines the word Divorce as to split, to separate. The word itself brings so many feelings and ideas a long with it that we can all relate to even if we have never been through a divorce or know anybody who ...read more

by E. A. Wolff

Divorce Does a failed marriage constitute a failed family? Some would argue that divorce is the downfall of the family unit. However, that claim can be refuted by examining the positive outcomes. Many chi...read more

by CHLOE DIVEN

I divorced my husband after sixteen long years and three children. We had married fairly young, we were both nineteen at the time and we thought that was old enough. I had been raised to think that I would graduate from h...read more

by Amanda Allen

My ex-husband and I married about for years ago. We just recently separated. We married when I was 20 and 6 months pregnant, he was 22. Our life started out good. We got our own place and we both worked. But after the bab...read more

by Barbara A. Black

After twenty-eight and a half years of marriage, I moved out and filed for divorce. It was something that I had never considered, when I had married, because I thought he was the one God had chosen for me. Maybe he was, wh...read more

by Jill Riddle

Divorce has been increasing at an alarming rate, while these divorces are continuing is anyone thinking about the children? These kids are the casualties of an epidemic that is tearing through our society. Family values ha...read more

by Joseph Wardy

I was divorced after 27 years of marriage. If anyone says divorce is without deep personal pain and loss, they are either totally out of touch with their feelings or simply lying. The question , however, is that people'...read more