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By Wendy Brown, Clinical Member, Ontario Society of Psychotherapists

Six Major Marriage Enders

By Wendy Brown August 4, 2015 Advice No Comments

It’s usually a lengthy and difficult process to end a marriage. That’s because most people don’t take it lightly when they promise to stay with someone forever. There has to be a really substantial problem to make them give up and declare the marriage is done. Here are the six major things that I have seen end marriages: 1) Cheating This is first on the list because it’s one of the most painful reasons people split up. The spouse who finds out his/her partner is cheating usually feels like he/she has been kicked in the gut and just had his/her heart ripped out. The feelings of betrayal, jealousy and humiliation are often intense and unrelenting. Some people simply cannot or will not forgive and forget: cheating leads straight to divorce in these cases. But, there are also lots of marriages in which one individual chronically cheats, or they both do.…

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