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Going through the divorce process is an emotional, stressful time in a person’s life, which is even made even more difficult when the divorce is a “bad” one.  According to one counselor and mental health consultant, Diana Dodson, divorcing couples … Read More

In the United States today, the percentage of married adults has reached an all time low.  Researchers form the University of Central Oklahoma and Cornell University conducted a study, which was published in the December 2011 issue of Family Relations, … Read More

Arizona is a state that does not allow same-sex marriage.  What happens when a man who was born as a woman, but had a sex change, though he still has female reproductive organs, marries, moves to Arizona, and then decides … Read More

Research has shown that low-income couples are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce than couples with more money.  According to researchers at the University of California, money problems, drinking and drug use is the cause of this … Read More

With the divorce rate hovering around the 50 percent mark in the United States, more couples are turning towards counseling to help cope with divorce.  Divorce counseling, also called divorce therapy, is a fairly new concept in the mental health … Read More

One of the benefits of getting married, is sharing things with your new spouse,  Instead of two rent payment to make, there is only one rent payment.  The same is true of cable, electricity, gas and water bills.  Married couples … Read More

With more than half of first marriages breaking up within twenty years, would couples be better off living together first? In the past, living together before marriage was a sign that, if the couple did marry, there was a good … Read More

The end of a marriage can be one of the most stressful events in a person’s life.  Even for the partner who chooses to leave, divorce can arouse feelings of grief, guilt, anger, anxiety and other intense feelings.  People will … Read More

Divorce rates in  Arizona and across the country for the general population have stabilized over the past several decades, but not for those ages 50 and over.  The baby boomer divorce rate has nearly doubled  in the last twenty years, … Read More