Living Together In Divorce - An Effective Way To Get Through Tough Times

There is something going on throughout the world that is not widely advertised and may be happening on the street where you live.

I am talking about married couples who have come to the end of the road with their relationship but instead of getting a quick divorce have decided to stay living together.

If it sounds unusual then prepare yourself for the fact that the amount of families living this way is on the rise.

So why on earth would a husband and wife who have ended their marriage want to stay under the same roof with each other.

The plain and simple truth is that many couples cannot afford to break up in the traditional way. By that I mean a good old fashioned and often nasty divorce where there are no winners just hurt and angry people.

The global recession affected a lot of people who lost their jobs and watched their biggest asset (their home) devalue to far less than they paid for it. The recession caused the bottom of the housing market to literally fall out leaving people who had bought their homes in more prosperous times struggling to sell their homes for a fair price.

When a married couple decides to part they generally look at dividing up their assets. The family home is put on the market and the couple hopes for a fast sale so they can move on with their lives. As many couples would have had a mortgage on their property it would be impossible to sell their home for less than the amount owed at the bank. The future must certainly have looked bleak for many of these people as they watched their marriages dissolve and everything they had worked for now part of a divorce settlement.

Somewhere in the suburbs a cunning plan must have been hatched and the concept of living together in divorce was born. In the face of adversity couples that were intending to divorce decided the best thing to do was become roommates and live in the family home until it was sold.

What followed though was a realization that as roommates they were getting on better with each other because the pressure of the marriage was gone. Instead of going into the future with nothing but heartache these ingenious couples set some new rules and embarked on a brand new way of living together. They knew that eventually they would be divorced but not until their debts were all settled and their children properly cared for.

This is not an epidemic but it is taking place in homes everywhere. People will have their opinions but at the end of the day when a couple makes the tough decision to live together in divorce I can guarantee they have not taken it lightly.