Tag: growing apart

It’s one of the main reasons older couples get divorced yet it’s not on the radar or thought about at all when we first marry—growing apart.

Makes sense. When we are madly in love and constantly engaging in new experiences as a couple, we cannot imagine growing apart. On top of that, when our lives get hectic, complicated and busier than they should be, we are too caught up in the non-stop to realize how much we might be growing apart. Until we are living separate lives under the same roof. Yikes.

One of the biggest reasons for divorce in older marriages is growing apart. And one of the many reasons for growing apart is when one partner starts to evolve and change and the other doesn’t.

This is a tough one. Not gonna lie. I know from my own experience when I started a spiritual awakening in June of 2014. I didn’t plan the change nor could I stop once it started. It can create the oddest dichotomy of beautiful growth with incredible loneliness and confusion for both people in the marriage.