{"id":8808,"date":"2017-08-10T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:30:46","slug":"how-to-know-when-to-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/how-to-know-when-to-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know When to Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate hearing about anyone getting divorced.<\/p>\n

But as a relationship coach, almost every day I hear from a woman who is in excruciating pain and on the verge of divorce because her husband is having an affair and refuses to end it.<\/p>\n

Or his chronic, excessive drinking has put her over the edge and she is afraid of what the kids are seeing.<\/p>\n

Or her self-esteem is gone because of the physical abuse in their home or because he engages prostitutes.<\/p>\n

There was a time when I would have urged these women to leave such heartbreaking situations. I wrote exactly that in my first book and more recently in blogs like this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I presumed I knew what a woman in such a difficult situation should do.<\/p>\n

As if I were the expert on her life.<\/p>\n

Which I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

Recently I\u2019ve been confronted with something even worse about what I\u2019ve written for all these years, and I\u2019m embarrassed to say I was too afraid to admit it.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

Here is what I didn\u2019t want to admit about marriages to addicts, abusers or adulterers.<\/p>\n

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