Divorce

The Christmas that went wrong: I had a massive abscess and spent my first ever night in hospital

The year already ranked among my very worst – then I wound up on a tinsel-draped drip, while my family texted fun photos from the pub

Bella Mackie

24, Dec, 2024 @5:00 AM

‘It’s emotionally painful, spending every day with your ex’: the couples who live with their partners after a breakup

Michael and Yanna share a flat with their daughter Roza. They split the mortgage and cook breakfast together. The catch? They broke up six years ago. Meet the couples sharing a home even after separating

Kitty Drake

14, Dec, 2024 @7:00 AM

Wife of Wisconsin man accused of faking his own death files for divorce

File says marriage ‘irretrievably broken’ as Emily Borgwardt, whose husband had fled to Europe, seeks custody of kids

Maya Yang and agencies

12, Dec, 2024 @9:15 PM

DIY advent calendars are way too much work – but I don’t know how to stop | Zoe Williams

To avoid a double chocolate nightmare when I got divorced, I began to vary the contents of my children’s calendars – but now they’d rather have a mini Smirnoff than a lip balm, writes Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams

03, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM

Did you have couples therapy to break up with an ex?

We tend to see couples therapy as a way to save relationships – now we’d like to hear from people who used a mediator to help them separate from a partner

Guardian community team

19, Nov, 2024 @1:33 PM

When Trump says he’s going to ‘protect’ women, he means ‘control’ them | Arwa Mahdawi

Rights we have taken for granted can, as we saw with the overturning of Roe v Wade, be suddenly yanked away

Arwa Mahdawi

02, Nov, 2024 @1:00 PM

Divorce applications wrongly approved after computer error, high court hears

Online system incorrectly approved 79 divorces after submissions were sent a day before law allows

Geneva Abdul

31, Oct, 2024 @8:34 AM

Will you marry me (again)?: the rise of ‘divorce regret’

Almost half of all marriages now end in divorce, yet some people experience ‘divorce regret’ and choose to remarry. Here, happily reunited couples
tell their stories about how it all went unexpectedly right

Amelia Abraham

22, Sep, 2024 @9:00 AM

My 15-year-old stepdaughter never acknowledges my birthday. Am I wrong to stop buying her gifts? | Leading questions

It’s frustrating to put in a lot of effort and not get any back, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Before you say you’re done with gifts, perhaps share what they mean to you

Eleanor Gordon-Smith

29, Aug, 2024 @3:00 PM

From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up

As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck go their separate ways again, why won’t some just call time on doomed affairs?

Andrew Anthony

24, Aug, 2024 @3:00 PM

How to make a relationship work – and when to call it quits: 10 lessons in love from divorce lawyers

Have the awkward chats early on, don’t be afraid to argue and be graceful when it ends. Divorce lawyers share their advice for singles and couples

Rhiannon Evans

03, Aug, 2024 @7:00 AM

The big split: why divorce rates were soaring in 1976

After the Divorce Reform Act a decade earlier, women were telling their husbands, ‘I’ve had enough!’

Emma Beddington

14, Jul, 2024 @8:00 AM

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