When Marriage Ends in a Bitter Divorce: Marriage, matrimony, happiness, ever-after, laughter, love and many other misconceptions can describe the grandeur of the constitution of marriage. So can arguments, adultery, financial difficulty, anger and many other realities within the circle of marriage.

Marriages end in divorce yet each year, thousands of people do it and plan to make a lifetime goal of staying that way. However, marriages often end in divorce and that’s the end of that until they decide to try it again. Many people will even try it a third, fourth and fifth time. Look at Elizabeth Taylor, how many times did she try marriage? That one is hard to calculate. The point is people think that they should be married, so they marry. Talk about peer pressure.

Then, suddenly a marriage ends in a custody battle for the dog and your grandmother’s antiques go to your significant other and you end up sleeping in your car for a few nights while you maneuver some funds around to rent a place. After all, your significant other kept your $350,000 home and locked down all of your credit cards by maxing them out. You find yourself in the middle of a very bitter divorce.

Marriage certainly takes on a different flavor after the demise of the marriage ends in a bitter divorce. Furthermore, you wouldn’t even consider this divorce bitter if the old hag hadn’t taken all of your money, possessions and your dog Biff. Suddenly, the marriage has ended in a combat zone and you want no part of another one.

One reason people will give marriage a second try after the demise of the first one is because they haven’t gone through a real rocky one with so much bitterness that it’s unbearable. However, after one bitter ending to a long marriage or even a short one, then the person is pretty much sick and tired of the concept and probably won’t try it again for some time.

Bitter divorces end the idea of perfect marriages and often perfect marriages end in bitter divorces. Knowing this will help you put some ounce of reality and true expectations into your relationship before you decide to take on a long term commitment and if it doesn’t, then once you experience the real deal, then you’ll understand that the concept of marriage isn’t at all what it’s so cracked up to be.

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