Divorce rates skyrocket during normally quiet Thanksgiving time.

[powderman]

   
Divorce rates skyrocket during normally quiet Thanksgiving time.
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Divorce rates skyrocket during normally quiet Thanksgiving week, lawyers blame pandemic
Many couples are not waiting for the holidays to be over

By Michael Hollan | Fox News


Fox News Flash top headlines for November 26

It may not be a happy holiday after all.

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According to a report, over the past weeks courts have handled a much higher than normal number of divorce filings. This apparently came as a surprise because the holiday season is usually a slow season for divorces.


Divorce lawyers say that their schedules for the week of Thanksgiving have been much higher than normal.  (iStock)

Divorce attorneys told Business Insider that this year the lead-up to Thanksgiving has been busier than it normally is. According to them, the reason for the difference is likely the coronavirus pandemic.

A lawyer who spoke with the news outlet described how her schedule has been different this year.

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"Typically, if it's a Thanksgiving week, it would be quiet,” lawyer Emily Walsh said. “It's quiet in the sense that my phone's not ringing off the hook, but I'm working as if it's any other busy week. We've got loads of [virtual] court appearances and motions to file and it's really busy.”

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Couples who are considering ending things tend to wait until January to start making it official, the New York Post reports. This way, they won’t feel like they’re ruining the holidays (which usually involve traveling, vacations and visits with extended family).


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One attorney blamed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the resulting lockdowns for this year’s shift.

New York City attorney Jordan Linn explained, “I think familiarity breeds contempt and the more time they're forced to be together where they don't have an outlet outside of the marriage, because everything is so restrictive and their social lives outside of the house are restricted, those problems are magnified. They quickly realize that as soon as [the divorce is final] they want out."

[Ranger99]

I've had good friends who've been
married 20+ years split up and divorce
over the flimsiest of reasons (or so it
seemed to me) After putting up with
each other for a couple of decades,
you'd think there wouldn't be anything
they couldn't work out. And they're all
the woman wanting to bug out to
"find herself " or " needs space /breathing room "
I don't understand at all

[Doublebass73]

I've had good friends who've been
married 20+ years split up and divorce
over the flimsiest of reasons (or so it
seemed to me) After putting up with
each other for a couple of decades,
you'd think there wouldn't be anything
they couldn't work out. And they're all
the woman wanting to bug out to
"find herself " or " needs space /breathing room "
I don't understand at all

I can't speak for anyone else but I was with my ex-wife for 19 years. Sometimes people are so evil, crazy and dishonest that marriages can't be saved. I initiated the divorce because I knew if I stayed married to her the stress would kill me. I tried to explain that to friends from church who kept telling me I needed to stay and work things out. I realize their intentions were good but they weren't listening to me when I explained the things she had done to me. It was a gut wrenching thing to do to my kids because I stayed in the marriage that long for them but I had to do it unfortunately. I ended up with custody luckily and I did the best I could to adjust them to their new life.

My parents got divorced after 37 years of marriage. My father reached the end of his rope when it came to my mother's reckless spending habits. He tried to work with her on those issues but in the end he couldn't deal with the stress of financial insecurity and she was unwilling to change her spending habits. He has been much happier since their divorce. Her not so much, she's still bitter.

Divorce is always ugly but sometimes it needs to be done unfortunately.

[orerancher]

I've had good friends who've been
married 20+ years split up and divorce
over the flimsiest of reasons (or so it
seemed to me) After putting up with
each other for a couple of decades,
you'd think there wouldn't be anything
they couldn't work out. And they're all
the woman wanting to bug out to
"find herself " or " needs space /breathing room "
I don't understand at all

And as Soon as She 'Finds" Her "Space'...The Boy Friend or Nowadays, the Girl Friend comes out of the Woodwork...

[ironglows]

I've had good friends who've been
married 20+ years split up and divorce
over the flimsiest of reasons (or so it
seemed to me) After putting up with
each other for a couple of decades,
you'd think there wouldn't be anything
they couldn't work out. And they're all
the woman wanting to bug out to
"find herself " or " needs space /breathing room "
I don't understand at all

And as Soon as She 'Finds" Her "Space'...The Boy Friend or Nowadays, the Girl Friend comes out of the Woodwork...

  Bingo Ranger!  I don't know if it is true in every case, butit seems that every time I heard anyone use that very same phrase, it meant one of two things;

 1) I want to go out and be a tramp...
     ....or
 2) I have been out tramping around, and have found a fellow tramp to tramp with !

[powderman]

Gdaughter getting divorced after 10 years and 4 kids. Kids are being raised without God in their lives. Patty and I married over 40 years ago.  The secret?? Three things.
#1 go to Church together.
2. PRAY together.
#3. NEVER EVER get too old or too busy to go out on dates. You have to make time for each other.  CHARLIE. 

[Ranger99]

I don't know if it is true in every case, butit seems that every time I heard anyone use that very same phrase, it meant one of two things;

 1) I want to go out and be a tramp...
     ....or
 2) I have been out tramping around, and have found a fellow tramp to tramp with !

Seen that ^ ^ ^ more than once.
Each time the party in question started
staying on the computer at all hours 
Maybe hormonal imbalance too?

[Ranger99]

My own experiences were because
of wh*re friends, and in one case a
wh*re sister.  They were always remorseful
and wanted to come back.  Sorry, you
should have thought about that first.
Life's way to short to put up with
wh*re doin's

[Dee]

Well, I made 2 bad choices. I haven't got anybody to blame but myself.  I bought 2 cows that were giving the milk away. Both times my gut told me to run, but I didn't.
Women, or men, don't change for you. If they've got unacceptable habits before you married them, they'll likely keep'em.

[Ranger99]

. . . Women, or men, don't change for you. If they've got unacceptable habits before you married them, they'll likely keep'em.

I've known a whole bunch of women that
wouldn't believe that if they got paid a
suitcase full of hundred dollar bills to believe it .
I've had 3 that thought their ex husband/baby daddy
was going to come back and man up and act
right and from now on everything would be
rainbows and unicorns and blue skies.
Oh well.  . .

[Graybeard]

Still with the first one after 55 years,

[Argent 88]

Years ago I saw a lot of cheating going on during Deer season. The man is with the guys out hunting Deer for a few days.  And the woman goes out with the girls to the Honky Tonk and gets suckered into something after a few drinks. I kid you not, those fancy urban cowboys would descend on that place in droves looking for an opportunity. And they usually got it, check into divorce rates after Deer season.