Divorce is a terrifying situation. A promise the husband and wife made earlier to be loyal and faithful to each other forever is being broken. About half of all marriages in the U.S. today end up failing; they become divorces. A divorce not only affects the husband and wife, but the children as well. Many of them suffer from severe stress, and the divorce affects them emotionally. Also, the odds increase of children of a divorced family getting a divorce when they are older. Divorces occur for three main reasons: a failure to communicate, a failure to compromise, and a failure to think long-term.
A husband and wife might not tell each other about their problems or what they are feeling regularly. Because of this, the husband and wife will not understand why the other person is acting the way they are. While one of the spouses may be depressed over something that occurred at work, the other may think he or she is depressed because of an action he or she did. This leads to ill resentment between them and hate for no reason.
Compromising is also a big issue in trying to solve a marriage. Arguments are natural between a wife and a husband. However, they can easier without too much hatred between one another with compromise. Generally during arguments, both parties firmly believe that their position is the correct one, and fail to see where the other is coming from. Each person has to realize that both people believe that they are right and in order to stop arguing, they have to give a little of what the other wants, so they can get a little of what they want. If not, both parties will stay mad at each other for a long time. Another possible reason for the increase in the divorce rate is a failure to have long-term thinking. Both parties may want to get what they want now in their marriage and are unwilling to wait. One may want to travel the world now, while the other realizes that they need to save money for a better...