The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.
My parents’ divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
I didn’t like talking about my divorce. I think I viewed that as something that was embarrassing or a failure.
I think it’s better, if people aren’t getting on, that they should divorce.
Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).
The divorce in my family was really amicable. There were no fireworks. It was all sort of behind the scenes, if you will. None of us kids ever saw any argument.
I’m not a divorce monger by any means, but if you’re not happy in a relationship, and you’ve grown apart, it’s not healthy for a couple to stay together. It’s better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.
Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.
I don’t like the way the E.U. leaders are trying to punish us or the language of divorce. It’s a business partnership, not a marriage. If something is not working well, you should be free to leave it.
I don’t think there’s a fan out there who hasn’t had a family member or known someone personally who’s been in the midst of divorce – perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have – and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don’t blame Hollywood for my family’s problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people’s lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing ‘Harper Valley PTA’ and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn’t negotiate with the other women.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
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.
I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never – death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It’s so clearly placed there for you with divorce.
My dad died of a heart attack when I was 15. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school. I went through a divorce – those not-so-great things are all a part of me, and they give me a place to go when I cover those stories on the news. I’m more empathetic, more relatable because of them.
In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’
The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.
I’ll tell you what divorce hasn’t taught me. It didn’t teach me not to get married again.
After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I’d gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.
There’s nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
You can’t go through a divorce and then get back together.
I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.
Men tell me that I’ve saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it’s cheaper than a divorce. So I’m still useful, you see.
Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they’re getting back together. You know what that means? There’s still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.
The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.
I could not bounce back from my divorce – emotionally – I just could not bounce back.
When I get married, it will be for life – divorce is not an option.
In ‘Radio,’ I play Vimesh, a 34-year-old guy who solves others’ problems on the radio, while he himself undergoes turmoil in his life with his wife deciding to divorce him. I think the audience will relate to the character.
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I’m about $100,000 short.
My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let’s face it.
I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.
Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and ’70s had was a big divorce boom in the ’70s and ’80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
I don’t think I’ll get married again. I’m not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.
In most superhero shows, the superhero is pretty young. He’s in his 20s; he’s single. ‘Black Lightning’ is a man who’s middle-aged, going through a divorce, and has two daughters.
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn’t an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn’t able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.
I’m not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don’t care what anyone says.
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.
Awkward conversations are painful, but they’re way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It’s impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham – they are all in the Koran.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.
The importance of human life should be universally respected – and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
I don’t really know that there’s a sign that someone is going to file for divorce with no face-to-face conversation.
I’m going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I’m not gonna get three strikes. I’ve been living by myself for five years and I’m very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
