Divorce is a highly complicated process, it leaves a person frustrated, stressful, and unhappy and it carries so many negative effects on family. And this finally ends on unfair spousal maintenance and a pain that comes from a broken relationship. If you are going to take divorce or you are at the beginning of your divorce process try to reconsider your marriage, it’s not a short term crisis you and your family can pay lifelong.
You have many alternatives to save your relation and to avoid divorce. Here are some alternatives that may help you-
Marriage counselling: When divorce takes place, it brings so many complicacies to the couple and their children’s lives and it can be stressful event. But to avoid the troublesome end to your marriage, marriage counselling is the best option to opt. Counselling helps the couple to communicate effectively and solve their problems in an effective manner.
Annulment: Annulment and divorce both are different legal terms. Divorce ends your legal marriage but annulment in simple words ends an invalid marriage. This happens for various reasons such as fraud, marriage prohibited law, mental illness, underage marriage etc.
Marriage meditation: A meditator helps the couple to resolve the miscommunication issues, he /she can be a lawyer. He makes them agree on the conflicts such as financial disputes, living arrangements, family conflicts etc. It helps when traditional marriage counselling fails.
Out of court settlement: Couple decides to work out the divorce settlement without going to the court. Court sometimes may not be the desirable place and it effects the person to a great extent.
Don’t compare yourself with other couples: You and your spouse is unique in this world, don’t compare your couple with any real life hero heroine. If you are doing so, you are making a big mistake that would bring your relationship on end.
Take your time and reconsider your relation: Every relation needs a second chance as on many occasions your temper might leave you in bad shape. Many people give their marriage a second chance to think over the things that are not working well, and they succeed as well.
A temporary separation: Instead of taking divorce, you can separate for few months or a year so that you will get to know that how dose living apart actually feels. It may help to save your marriage. Even the court doesn’t allow you to get divorced if you don’t make any efforts.
If you have tried all the above alternatives and but it ends on court remember things would be very adverse in future.