Category: Divorce

BEIRUT: As globalization transforms most aspects of modern life, the nature of family and family life is no longer what it was even 10 years ago. The usual stresses and strains on marriage have been compounded by the growing trend of people moving away from their families and countries of origin in search of a livelihood.

That the Arab world is not insulated from these profound socio-economic changes is evident from the rise in the number of couples choosing to separate in several Middle Eastern and North African countries.

A recent study by the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center found that Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan and Qatar are the Arab countries with the highest divorce rates.

In Kuwait, 48 percent of all marriages end in divorce, 40 percent in Egypt, 37.2 percent in Jordan, 37 percent in Qatar, and 34 percent in both the UAE and Lebanon.

“On some

With a combined net worth of $550 million, it’s understandable why there’s been so much interest in Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s prenup and if they signed one to protect their multi-million-dollar fortune.

J-Lo and Ben met in 2001 on the set of their movie, Gigli, in which they played love interests. They started dating in 2002, around the time Ben also starred as the love interest in the music video for J-Lo’s song, “Jenny From the Block.” In November 2002, Ben proposed to J-Lo with a 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from Harry Winston, and the two got engaged. Two days before they were scheduled to tie the knot in September 2003, J-Lo and Ben announced that they had postponed their wedding.

In January 2004, J-Lo and Ben announced that they had ended their engagement after two years together. “I am confirming the report that Jennifer Lopez has ended

When they split up in 2005, Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen began a very public and very contentious divorce process. Richards was six months pregnant with their second child when she filed for divorce. And while she has acknowledged that it was a difficult thing to do, in a new interview, she opened up about the moment that she realized she couldn’t stay married to Sheen.

Now, the exes are in a better, friendlier place. In her interview with the podcast Divorced Not Dead, Richards spoke candidly about their past issues and the effect their relationship has had on their daughters. Read on to see what Richards had to say about deciding to end things.

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Richards (then known primarily as an actor who had appeared in movies including The World Is

For the past three years, most of which was spent negotiating a horrific divorce, I’d wanted to hit something and hit it hard. I’d tried meditation and therapy. Anger still hummed beneath my fingertips, cinched my gut, and taunted the soles of my feet.
Friends prescribed Tinder, as if one-night stands could be hot enough to steam out the stains from custody battles. I bought a pickleball paddle instead.

The sound of the game was what drew me in first—the high decibel pops of paddles cracking down on plastic balls. It cut through the Bay Area fog through to my open windows from the town’s courts one block away, teasing my attention away from the work on my computer screen. One morning in October 2021, I finally gave in and joined the fun.

Returning the bright-green ball back over the net took every ounce of concentration. After day one, when

A husband on Reddit has described a tense situation involving his wife at a child’s birthday party, in a post that has nearly 15 thousand likes. In the post the husband sets up the background, explaining that his wife’s sister-in-law is her best friend and married to her brother. “Long story short, she bends over backwards to accommodate their every ask, including babysitting, errands, etc. This extends to volunteering me to help them without my knowledge or consent etc. She never sees my point of view or agrees with any criticism of them I have.”

He then describes a recent situation at their nephew’s birthday party hosted by the sister-in-law, “so my wife is super keen for things to go well.” While their three-year-old daughter is being cuddled by the wife because her balloon had accidentally popped “a boy (older than her, 5/6) sprints into her and knocks her over.”