Ten Reasons NOT To Get A Divorce (Episode 3)

THE EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION

Divorce is emotionally devastating for most people. Divorce forces us to kill all of the dreams we were counting on when we decided to marry our mate. It separates us from the one person we believed would always be there for us, holding our hand when we got old and feeble. We may deny the pain, but there is always pain with divorce. Divorce is a type of death, and we will need to grieve from the pain, just as we do when a person we love dies.
Divorce is the ultimate rejection, because we are either rejecting, or being rejected by, the one person who knew us most in this world. In this culture, we've grown so accustomed to people splitting up, that this silent pain is often ignored and not acknowledged, but it's still real. People may even cover up their pain with addictions or new relationships, but these do not heal the hurt. Many people are never the same after a divorce, because all of their underpinnings have been taken from them.
to be continued............