Do you feel emotionally disconnected from your partner? Are you staying in the relationship for financial, parenting, or other reasons? Do you find yourselves living separate lives although still together?
If you remain legally married but experience emotional, mental, and often physical detachment, you may be experiencing a ‘silent divorce.’ A ‘silent divorce’ usually leads to resentment, confusion, and loneliness. Generally, couples drift into a silent divorce over time, rather than experiencing an acute catalyst. A silent divorce usually indicates a pattern of avoidance in the relationship and inability to discuss and come to agreement or compromise. Over time, a silent divorce can lead to feelings of loneliness, depression, resentment, and isolation.
Silent divorce can be confusing for the children. They sense the distance and see their parents living separate lives, but are given no explanation for what is happening. They may believe that they can fix their parents’ marriage if only they are good enough. Children may even act out as an unconscious way of trying to bring their parents back together.
While silent divorce may seem like a good solution, you and your loved ones deserve relationships in which conflict and disagreement are permitted, and issues are dealt with.
Read more about silent divorce here: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/signs-silent-divorce-loud-clear-140017202.html?guccounter=1