Divorce is a process which can have tremendous impacts on a relationships and family that can often be felt many years after the event. Sometimes divorce is inevitable event though it should be avoided. Often couples that could benefit from counseling wait too long before attempting it which leads into divorce. Outside of divorce there are may options in marriage that offer alternative to give a relationship room to breathe and grow like beta marriages and LAT marriages. These alternatives are especially attractive to those with limited financial means.
Key Takeaways:
- Divorce has tremendous and long lasting impacts on a relationship and any surrounding family and often should be the last step in a bad relationship.
- There are new alternative forms of marriage like a beta marriage and a LAT marriage that redefine the traditional structural of a marriage to better cope with nature of relationships.
- There is growing evidence that children desire stable and loving environments rather than marriage to be happy.
“Many of these alternatives were borne out of the Recession because people didn’t have the means to break up the family and go out on their own.”