I have a very wonderful separation-divorce. It’s a divorce – but it’s a weird one.
Divorce is no joke and is painful for whatever reason it breaks down.
It’s weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
‘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.
In the end, being Mrs Imran Khan couldn’t protect me. Even the divorce announcement couldn’t stop the hate campaign waged in the press to demolish my character.
Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.
I couldn’t handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad’s divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.
Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
In a family of faith, you don’t believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.
I think that when something happens when you’re growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren’t as straightforward.
Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
Divorces are getting so common that a woman I know doesn’t bother getting a new marriage license. They just punch her old one and give her a transfer. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks – so she keeps changing dogs.
Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you’ve failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family’s broken up.
I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn’t born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that’s how my breakups tend to play out.
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What’s going on? What’s the great discontent at the heart of it?
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
Whenever I told women – friends or acquaintances – that I had to go to divorce court, they’d invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, ‘What are you going to wear?’ It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.
There are people that regardless of what it is, if it’s something that’s stressful, whatever it may be, they don’t eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I’m the opposite.
My sister can walk down the street and just know what’s going on with people. She’ll say, ‘Oh, they’re going through a divorce’ or, ‘Their kid just went off to college’ or, ‘He just got a great job.’
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
Any divorce is going to suck.
I’ve seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don’t end well. Often.
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can’t, and vice versa.
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn’t have kids – but divorce is hard.
By supporting Reagan, evangelicals were not supporting womanizing or divorce, but they were endorsing Reagan’s policies.
Financially speaking, I haven’t ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.
For me, success is being happy. I used to think it was lots of houses, lots of record sales, lots of stories to tell. But some massive life changes, getting a divorce and my dad dying, led to a huge period of reflection.
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother ‘worked’ at anything besides raising her children.
I’m not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy – divorces – and it took me a long time to really get through.
I was on my own for a long time before I married Neil, and now I’m on my own again. I’ve kind of gotten over the separation and divorce. I’m capable. I can do this.
What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it’s that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can’t wait too long. It’s the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
‘Divorce Court’ is a great show.
It’s lonely. That’s why, in many ways, the CIA is the world’s biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it’s much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I’m pretty sure the agency’s divorce rate is rather high.
I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I’d have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn’t do it for you, and you need to get out of there.
In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman’s decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn’t as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today.
I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
My past business dealings, my personal life, who I’m dating, the details of my divorce, other business matters that I’ve had – all that should be completely off-limits.
Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.
Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what’s sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children’s lives but don’t live there, they have a pretty tough time.
I think divorce doesn’t necessarily bring out the best in people.
I’m certainly not the only person to have gone through a divorce. I’m not the only person who’s had heartbreak.
Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.
Divorce is contagious. That’s right – when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.
I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that’s part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.
I’m very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Even for a billionaire, a divorce isn’t easy.
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.
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
My faith informs everything I think and do. It’s part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.
My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it’s good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
