Reasons for divorce — men’s point of view

mens reasons for divorce

The causes of divorce could be really different.

Family life is oriented to be as long as possible. Families are created by two people who want to share their emotions, losses, happy and unhappy moments. People who become a husband and a wife believe that they will never offend each other, they will never have their private secrets, or they will be always sincere and true with the partner.  At least, the initial intentions to get marry sound that way, but…

Anyway, the statistics show that each year thousands of people pass thought the divorce process. Official statistics demonstrate that there is a regular increase in the rate of divorces all over the world. What are the reasons for divorce? I shall try to explain the answers from the ‘mature’ man viewpoint. The grounds for divorce are really different and I cannot provide any unique panorama which covers all the cases. Anyway, as the family experts and sociologists say, a large number of causes of divorce are connected with psychological misconnections in the family, physiological disorders, and lack of mutual understanding between the partners.
First ground for divorce.

“She does not love me!” This is the most common reason for separation. How often you have heard this in your life? In different movies and in the news, you see the divorce processes in which one says that he or she wants separation because their partner does not express sympathy; he or she is not in love with the partner. This means that when a man comes home and he meets his wife, he wants her to fly as a butterfly around him saying, “Hi, my dear!” However, some man consider that their wives should say, ‘Hi my darling!”, “Hi my honey”, or just “Yes, Sir! Yes, my boss!” Men sometimes believe that only they have a really dreadful job and only they could be really tired after the working day.
In our society, we have such a segment of men who think that only men can earn money and women when they sit at hoe they do nothing. Housework means nothing in their viewpoint. And this is a cause of divorce. So the problem is the next one: can men really appreciate the work of their wives? Maybe sometimes women are so badly tired after all this washing, cleaning, and ironing that they just cannot pretend to be happy. And in this case a man should be the first to say, “Hi! How are you? I love you so much! I’ve missed you today!” Men are supposed to be busier in our life, they have difficult stresses. They are supposed to be strong and brave to get money for their family. Sometimes, this makes them become family patriarchs and ‘dictators’ who do not understand the values of family life. They think that their wife is a property, and their possession is omnipotent. And this can be resulted in a divorce.

Second ground for divorce.

“She does not want me!” Sexual life is the essential part of the family life. Maybe you know a man saying that he has left his wife due to her lack of participation in a physical relationship with him. He has not had ‘relations’ with her in over several years and, finally, moved out of their bedroom two years ago. It was important for him to have his needs met inside of the marriage and when his wife was unwilling to ‘accommodate’ him he grew more and more frustrated until he got to the point where he felt leaving was his only option.
Anyway, family is not only ‘physical operations’, and wives are not ‘sex machines.’ Some men have the hypersexual activity, and when they are not satisfied with their private life, they can look for someone else. Some men are sure that divorce is a way to find a more beautiful lady. In this way, husbands disguise their wives; they find young ladies to pass the night saying that they have been working all the night with the boss in the office finalizing the calculations of expenses and profits. The psychologists say that when a couple is experiencing issues in the bedroom it is the responsibility of both parties to address the problem. It isn’t fair for one person to expect the other to abstain from sexual activity just as it isn’t fair for one partner to demand physicality from the other when they are not providing them with the emotional support they need. Both partners need to take responsibility for their part in the problem and the whole issue needs to be addressed and dealt with before one of them does something that will ultimately cause the marriage to fail.

Third ground for divorce.

“She does not care of me!” Again, this problem happens rather often. Sometimes, men in the family life behave as if they were noisy children, and their wives play a role of the mother. Some psychologists divide all the male beings into two categories: ‘men-fathers’ and ‘men-children.’ The second category wants always to run the show, to be in the centre of family attention. Their wives are obliged to wash their closes, clean their houses, water their plants, and feed their pets. These men are so self-concentrated and self-oriented as small arrogant and nasty children. This is also a reason for separation.

Fourth ground for divorce.

“She is flirting with others!” Sometimes, men want their wives to be their own legacy. This means that a woman or a lady does not have a right to smile with another men, she cannot speak to someone else (and they do not mean flirting). The control from her husband’s side is enormous in such a case. What is more, men consider their wives to be so sexually attractive, so that they can betray them. Suspicious and jealous husbands believe that all men want to get their fairy ladies. This situation often becomes a serious reason for divorce.

Fifth ground for divorce.

Some men also do believe that all women want to get their property, and being in a marriage is the only way for the ladies to obtain financial and social status. In a year or even in some months, then want to get a divorce and a half part of their husband’s property and bank account. This sort of men is very suspicious to all financial operations of their wives. They control all their private economic steps. In fact, such ‘financial jealousy’ provokes divorces because a woman does not feel the status of being independent. Even family is a cooperation of two people, the psychologists say that each one in the family should have her or his ‘private room’ (as Virginia Woolf wrote).

The causes of divorce could be really different. Sometimes the husbands experienced the situation of divorece of their parents, and this influences their mind also. Some men didn’t see their fathers and ware raised by a stepfather who cared more about keeping up appearances than building a relationship with yuong male children. All this may cause a problem in the family life. Anyway, sympathetic understanding and true love should be the main reason against divorces.
Author: Dmytro Blackbird

Difference between Lust and Love. Thoughts on Subject.

by Dmytro Blackbird

love lust difference

Love or Lust? Where is the border?

Love and lust are two both close and, on the other hand, opposite emotional states based on the psychic reactions. These are two faces of the human emotionality. Sometimes, it is even difficult to differentiate these two notions in ordinary life—strong love can absorb lust elements and lust can have some parts of love. All these feelings are based on the emotional bonds between two people. This emotional connection means the desire of having power on other person, on the one hand, and the desire to be a part of someone’s life, on the other. Lust and love are two emotional sisters that could have similar reactions. Anyway, what are the basic differences? And when, if this can happen, lust means love?

Firstly, love is based on three main emotional components: understanding, fidelity, and psychological sympathy. First, understanding is the most powerful matrix as without this feeling love can be easily converts into lust. Love means democratic relations and liberalism in dating or family life. Love is oriented to the Otherness as the main mental category. For real love, it is important to have the opinion and thoughts of your partner and not just your will. When your will becomes the overwhelming principle—then love becomes lust. Understanding means attentiveness and ‘emotional prudence’. Understanding is the controlling device which helps for two people to have a private sphere, to be independent and, on the other hand, to share the intimate sphere of your partner. Without understanding, love can be like a hurricane or volcanic eruptions of emotions that can destroy people’s lives. It is the most powerful shelter for egocentric reactions. When you have understanding, you will never inhabit what is not yours even it belongs to your close person. This factor is the key moment in family life if you want to have long, lovely, and bright family.

Second, fidelity is another key principle for couples who want to share the atmosphere of love. It helps to be fair and confident in your mind. Fidelity means emotional clearance and never has any black holes in your life. Love family atmosphere is impossible without the ability (or sic! — skill) to say truth even when it can reveal something not pleasant. It helps to build strong psychological relations between people to live in peace and understanding for many years. Most families experience crucial moments when the family life tends to be like a game ‘Find the truth’, when it has so many secrets and skeletons in the wardrobe, when family partners have their very private sectors, and they never tell each other about this. In this way, family can be practically destroyed because the private life occupies all the territory in your mind. In some years, love becomes the atavistic feeling from the past life that never can be renewed.

Third, psychological sympathy means similarity between two people in their views, lifestyle and life experience. On the other hand, sometimes two different people can have a wonderful family life. This situation demonstrates the rule when minus-atoms catch plus-atoms to create harmony. Harmony is the practical result of this psychological sympathy as it means lack of any form of aggressiveness, intolerance, or unfairness. According to the Indian myths, each person born on the earth has his o her second part. From the Bible, we see that Eva was born from Adam’s body. In this way, the psychological sympathy is the very important key to create a strong and happy family. It happens that people on the one hand have a sympathy and close views, that they love each other—but the result is family breaking. To find your second part is the essential moment because only this psychological sympathy could prevent you from transformation of your love into lust.

Lust, in fact, is the opposite system. It is based on strong emotional reactions and powerful sexual desire which is controlled by will-to-power. All people have their Ego which involves them in battles for power (and not only in the political sense but also in everyday family life.) We see various movies and ads when men and women are fighting to control the place in the house—either near the TV or in the kitchen. Lust deals with power and will motivations, as when you want to dominate and control your partner, you subconsciously become the victim of your lust. Lust does know the logical categories, it is volcanic and uncontrolled. You perceive your partner as the object that can be used for sex or other functions. Anyway, if you (perhaps sometimes it seems to be so) have the extraordinary love feeling, it does not mean that you have a real love based on understanding, fidelity, and psychological sympathy. Overwhelming love becomes a destroying power that neglects all attempts to understand your second part. Sexual motivations can be also very strong, but the desire of having sex cannot be compared to the real desire to be loved. Being loved means love for your second part too. It is a harmonic and two-faced reality with the same rules for two sides. When you think that she or he is just an object for manipulations in your hands, then you demonstrate the behavior of lust.

Lust is a spontaneous desire without any future perspectives. It can happen in a second and result in serious mistakes that can crucially ruin the family life. Love is the philosophy of heart and lust is just its physical ability or the potential measure of human emotional intelligence. To conclude, love is a long-distance process which involves not only emotions but cognitive systems and moral values. Love’s main basements can de explained as understanding, fidelity, and psychological sympathy. On the other hand, lust is the up-to-this moment emotional act which neglects moral categories. Lust is controlled by power and will with no moral borders. It demonstrates human ability to control and to get satisfaction. In this way, your partner becomes just an object for manipulations. Family life can never be built on lust but love is the essential.