How to end a relationship. Photo by Erik Clausen Breaking up with someone you love can be one of the toughest emotional struggles you’ll go through. How have you handled breakups in the past? What can you do to minimize pain for the other person and yourself? I’ve been on quite an emotional ride recently. The past three weeks have been a tremendously painful period, feelings of empathy mixed with remorse and guilt. When I first wrote about the art of keeping a relationship, my friend Pete Forde suggested that perhaps people could also benefit from an article on how to end a relationship. This being a sensitive topic, I had a tough time finding genuine and in-depth resources online. Feel free to add points that I’ve missed in the comment section.
Why Relationships End & Other Realizations As painful as a relationship can be as it’s ending, the experience can be a source of profound learning and personal growth. 1. Socially, we tend to correlate the ending of a relationship with failure. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. New life after divorce. Life after divorce. Divorce gene. Family values and genetics continue to be woven together as is seen in the study of the biology of faithfulness. Fewer than five percent of mammal species are habitually monogamous.
Prairie voles are monogamous. They groom each other, nest with one another, collaborate to guard their territory and are affectionate and attentive parents . In contrast, their relatives, the meadow voles, prefer a solitary promiscuous existence. These behavioral differences have been linked to the hormone vasopressin and the protein molecule that acts as its receptor. More vasopressin receptors seems to be correlated with a greater pleasure from monogamy. Zoe Donaldson and her colleagues at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia are altering the genetic make-up of prairie voles to prove the point. Hasse Walum and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, looked at a protein in the body which responds to vasopressin. This research opens the door to medication to treat infidelity .
Divorce reasons. The CDC estimates the rate of marriages in the United States as 7 per 1,000 of the general population and the rate of divorce as 3.5 per 1,000. Just as people fall in love for different reasons, couples divorce for different reasons. Here are the 10 top common reasons for divorce. Infidelity “…I promise to be faithful to you…” Infidelity is cited as the most common reason for divorce and the cause of nearly one third of all divorces in the United States. A spouse may be unfaithful consistently during an extramarital affair, intermittently during the marriage, or a solitary one night stand. Breakdown in Communication A lack of communication is a leading reason for divorce. Abuse Abuse of a spouse or the children is clear grounds for divorce. Financial Issues “…for richer, for poorer…” Financial issues that place an economic strain on the couple is a common cause for divorce.
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