{"id":639,"date":"2013-10-16T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.divorcewithoutwar.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2020-10-13T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:03:54","slug":"emotional-stages-of-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divorcewithoutwar.com\/emotional-stages-of-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Stages of Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decision to end a relationship can be traumatic, chaotic, and filled with contradictory emotions. There are also specific feelings, attitudes, and dynamics associated with whether one is in the role of the initiator or the receiver of the decision to breakup. For example, it is not unusual for the initiator to experience fear, relief, distance, impatience, resentment, doubt, and guilt. Likewise, when a party has not initiated the divorce, they may feel shock, betrayal, loss of control, victimization, decreased self esteem, insecurity, anger, a desire to \u201cget even,\u201d and wishes to reconcile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To normalize experiences during this time, it may be helpful to know that typical emotional stages have been identified with ending a relationship. It may also be helpful to understand that marriages do not breakdown overnight; the breakup is not the result of one incident; nor is the breakup the entire fault of one party. The emotional breaking up process typically extends over several years and is confounded by each party being at different stages in the emotional process while in the same stage of the physical (or legal) process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediate.com\/divorce\/pg62.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to continue reading this article from mediate.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emotional Stages of Divorce. Mediate.com. Retrieved on October 16, 2013, from http:\/\/www.mediate.com\/divorce\/pg62.cfm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to end a relationship can be traumatic, chaotic, and filled with contradictory emotions. There are also specific feelings, attitudes, and dynamics associated with whether one is in the role of the initiator or the receiver of the decision to breakup. 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