James Walsh's Articles in Marriage

  • How to Handle Your Children During Divorce
    Divorce is a very stressful time for the members of the entire family. There is insecurity and uncertainty in the air and no one knows for sure what lies ahead or how things will turn out eventually. The partners blame each other for destroying the relationship. There are frequent quarrels and shouting matches. The atmosphere in the house turns quite putrid for the members.
  • Moving onto a Fulfilling Life Following a Traumatic Divorce
    What is common between sudden obesity, insomnia, drug addiction, an expensive foreign tour, new sports cars, and dependence on internet social networks? On the face of it, nothing. A deeper look will reveal just one commonality in all.
  • How to Cope with a Child Custody Battle
    A divorce proceeding is a very painful thing for all the people involved in it. Whether the divorce is contested or it is collaborative, does not mitigate the suffering it causes all around. Its effect on the divorcing couple can be truly antagonising.
  • A Few Questions You Should Ask Your Partner before Tying the Knot
    Quite a few people, I know, had married after a courtship that lasted just a couple of months. These people were young, (barely in their 20s) who believed the strength of their love would overcome all odds. After a few years, just some of them were able to sustain their marriage, and even these successfully married people were found advising their children, never to marry without knowing their mate well.
  • How Divorce Effects Your Work
    Amidst all the emotional trauma and legal nitty-gritty associated with divorce, what suffers the most is your job. Not many people give that much attention to this area because there are several other things to deal with.
  • How Men Can Cope After Divorce
    Divorce is looked upon as the greatest failure of their lives by most men. Apart from the deep sense of personal loss, pain and frustration, there is this feeling that you have been marked out as the biggest loser around.
  • How Soon is Too Soon? Remarrying After Divorce
    Marriage is a relationship that has endured the test of time. It has been in existence for thousands of years in every civilisation of the world. This social institution has been so successful because it has many dimensions that affect a person at various levels, such as legal, social and personal.
  • Five Reasons Why Divorce Rate Has Become So High in Western Countries
    History can be called an acronym for ‘How is Society turning over round years,’ and no other society has experienced as dramatic a transformation as that of the West.
  • Things to Consider Before Contemplating Marriage
    Marriage is a huge step. It should not be made in a hurry under duress. Social psychologists argue that today, more than 73% of marriages end in their first year. Some of these marriages are confined to only a few months or days.
  • Should Divorce Be Made Easier?
    Divorce is an old occurrence. It goes as far back as ancient Sumeria and Babylon. Perhaps, it is as old an institution as marriage itself. After all, if two people can come together in matrimony, then they can also move apart in divorce.
  • Post Divorce Issues for Men
    Divorce is a social phenomenon on the rise in today’s world. There are implications and associations attached to it. When we see a marriage breaking, there is a natural prejudice against the man involved.
  • Woman’s Guide to the Year After Divorce
    Divorce is like the dynamite that is used to forcibly change course of the flowing river known as marriage. Never mind, if the intended purpose for changing the course is for the better or for the worse, the river will flow through uncharted territory.
  • Post-Divorce Survival Guide
    Divorce can bring about huge changes in a woman’s lifestyle and her perspective towards life. Even biologically, there are hormonal fluctuations.
  • Live in Relationships - the Emerging Trend
    Marriage is one of the oldest and most enduring institutions in the world today. Times, however, are changing and a lot of questions are being raised on its utility in today’s world. The social mores and requirements are changing leading to a change in cohabiting relationships.
  • Divorce: The Impact on Children
    Divorce is tough on children. No matter what age, divorce does have an adverse impact. Many studies have been conducted in this regard.
  • Divorce Myths
    Divorce is such a talked about subject that many myths have been perpetuated over it. A few divorce-related myths have been analysed here and some have been proved incorrect. The first myth relates to disinclination of women to divorce.
  • Divorce Myths
    In Western Sahara, a divorce is celebrated by a party lasting three whole days. However, this unique custom is not repeated elsewhere, for everywhere else divorce is a period of much grief and anguish.
  • Reasons behind Men Divorcing Women
    Once upon a time, marriages were made in heaven. This was definitely before the Fall, since that was when a man and his partner had the first major dispute. This was when the first marriage turned sour - and though the couple went on to produce a family - we do not know how Adam and Eve managed to patch up their fight.
  • Children of Divorce – Legal and Emotional Issues
    Childhood is the most delicate and beautiful part of our lives. The very fleeting nature of those few precious years makes its impact on the rest of our lives so deep. However, the UK is not the best place to enjoy those formative years at present. In fact, the UN has declared it as the worst country to grow up in among the developed nations.
  • Leaving the Marital Home
    It is a terrible thing to live in a rented space. You can never make that space your own. You can’t paint it the way you like, you can’t alter it, and you are always in a state of anxious readiness for the lightning bolt to fall when the landlord tells you to vacate.
  • Divorce and Old Age
    The rate of divorce is invariably on the rise in almost all the western countries. With the increased secularization of society, divorce has gained an acceptance in the contemporary British society and is no more considered to be a taboo. In the UK, in general, one in three marriages ends in a divorce. There are various factors responsible for this rapid rise in the divorce rates. It becomes much easier to understand if the spouses divorcing each other happen to be young.
  • Why Separation is Preferred over Divorce
    Each relationship is unique in itself and has its own set of problems and issues. Differences are a natural and inevitable part of marital life and often demand customized handling and care. One cannot enforce standardized solutions on every type of marital discord.
  • Moving On After Divorce: Forgiving and Forgetting
    Divorce can be viewed as the close of one chapter and the beginning of another. It is important to start this new chapter of life, free of any grievances or emotional burden. In other words, whatever type of divorce, a key element determining the future situation of an individual’s personal and professional life lies in his/ her ability to pick up the shattered pieces and rebuild a new life. Social psychologists claim that the ability of the individual to perceive all situations in a positive light – to bounce back with resilience, go a long way in deciding the emotional, social, cognitive and physical development of the individual after a messy divorce. Thus the aspect of dealing with the aftermath of a messy divorce is crucial.
  • Choosing a Subject to Study at University
    Newton had thought of becoming a farmer. John Keats was a student of medicine. Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Byron, was brought up to be a mathematician. She wrote the first computer programme, but remained extremely imaginative like her father.

    How does one know what is the best subject to study at university? Some subjects are touted as the most ‘earning-friendly’, but there’s no magic formula to success.
  • Emotional Abuse: A Reason to Divorce?
    Emotional abuse forms a major reason for divorce. But the answer does not lie in simply walking away but to understand and help your partner deal with it.
  • Top 10 Reasons Why Companies Fail
    So why do companies fail? We are not talking about mummy’s home-made apple pie business here or the lone geek’s sudden prosperity through sale of weird gaming software. Proper organisations, with all the capital and infrastructure that should have made them tick don’t, and are either bought by someone else, or simply have to shut shop. ‘Top tens’ of various types have become points of corporate joke books by now, and that is because of two reasons. One is that those who write them have either ‘borrowed’ them haphazardly from management best-sellers (and some of these well-acclaimed books are horror reads themselves). The other reason is more common, and is deep-rooted in our psyche. We like to avoid thinking deeply about anything that sounds like advice until we are in dire straits. Let us illustrate this with yet another top ten list below:
  • Divorce in the UK
    Divorces have become quite popular and common in the western world. Gone are the days when marriages were considered made in heaven and partners were supposed to spend their life together till “death did them apart.” Today is the era of liberalisation and empowerment of women. They are highly educated and career- conscious, and earning enough to sustain themselves and their children.
  • Case Study: My Divorce
    I couldn’t believe it when Pam told me about Ned. We’ve been married for two years, and we weren’t the kind of couple you would imagine going for a divorce. Pam, Ned, and I had been in the same university.
  • Older People and Divorce
    The society as a whole in recent decades has made rapid strides in various areas, including in matters of human relationships and marriage. The rights of individuals as a social entity have been more sharply demarked and eagerly defended.
  • Remarrying Your Ex-Spouse
    People often think that only celebrities remarry their ex-spouses. Probably, the much publicised remarriages of the rich and famous might have led them to think so. Remarriages of Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and Richard Burton have made regular headlines.