predivorce

Prior to dissolution

Predivorce describes the period or circumstances before a divorce: predivorce counseling, predivorce assets.

The term appears in legal and financial contexts when distinguishing what existed before the marriage ended: The court examined their predivorce income levels.

emotional

counseling

Professional guidance for problems

anxiety · denial · resentment · ambivalence · sadness · turmoil · contemplation · estrangement · disconnection · limbo

legal

separation

State of being apart

settlement · petition · attorney · filing · agreement · negotiation · alimony · disclosure · documentation · proceedings

relational

separation

State of being apart

intervention · boundaries · coparenting · communication · distance · tension · arguments · silence · withdrawal · counseling

practical

finances

Monetary affairs

insurance · splitting · inventory · moving · downsizing · budgeting · employment · childcare · logistics · documentation

Opposites
temporal relationship to divorce

predivorcepostdivorce

After marriage legally ends

divorced · single again

marital trajectory

predivorcepremarital

Before the wedding

prenuptial · newlywed · honeymoon phase · engaged

marital status trajectory

predivorcesingle

One in number

unmarried · divorced · remarried · reconciled · back together

Family

divorce, divorced, divorces, divorcing, divorcee, divorcees, prenuptial, divorcement, postdivorce

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