marital breakdown
Spouse relationship failure
Marital breakdown is the deterioration of a marriage to the point where the relationship cannot continue.
The term appears frequently in legal contexts, where it serves as grounds for divorce: The court accepted irreconcilable differences as evidence of marital breakdown.
It emphasizes the process of decline rather than a single event.
- growing apartGradual emotional separation
- legal separationFormal marital split, not dissolution
- divorceLegal end of matrimony
- custody battlesLegal contests for parenting rights
- betrayalBreaking of trust
abuse · grief · infidelity · mediation · trial separation · incompatibility · irreconcilable differences · stigma · starting over · support groups · therapy · financial stress · estrangement · prenuptial agreements · alimony · division of assets · coparenting · resentment
marital breakdownreconciliation
Restoration of friendly relations
getting back together · reunification · rekindling · recommitment · vow renewal