“Grey divorces” are growing fast

Maybe you are around 50 years and feel that your marriage has stagnated, that the connection is gone . Maybe the empty nest after the kids shows that you have not so much in common and the conversations are shallow. In some cases the attraction and intimacy is gone or arguments are getting more and worse. But thinking is it too late to divorce ? Am I to old? How can I at this age create a new life?

100 years ago the life expancy was 50 years compared today 85 years. That means that we get almost one more life in the life. This in combination with the reality that marriage today in our part of the world is not anymore necessary for legal or economical reasons, makes us more inclines to divorse and later in life. The “grey divorces” meaning divorce after 50 is today accountable for 40% of the divorces.

When you come to a couple therapist of course the prime objective is to bring the joy, harmony and love back into the marriage. But tat takes change and not everybody can or is willing to do that change. Then it is important to know that if you choose divorce it is not to late to create a new life. Hopefully we live to 85 years and you have many important years agead of you.

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