The Rise in ‘Silent Divorce’ Creating Emotional Disconnection

The emerging marital trend ‘silent divorce’ is experienced by married couples due to emotional disconnection but still stay together for financial reasons or for the purpose of co-parenting. Many marriages kick off on good note, as they tend to carry along the aura from relationship to marriage, but when they began to go through rough patches, it tastes the veracity of their emotional connection and how they navigate through. Married couples implore different strategies to help themselves, but when it is not clicking, it further depends emotional disconnection, and there could be no way back to the track. It could spark from grudges held for so long, which is far away from dialogue.

Silent divorce slowly creeps in when communication becomes difficult, especially after arguments, leaving situations unresolved. Talks become minimal and emotion becomes less, the connection and security of love loosen its grip. It reaches its climax when couples began to sleep in a separate rooms, and over time they began to get comfortable with staying apart, and only come together for financial expenses or for kid’s wellbeing. What comes next is the step to start and finalise divorce proceedings which often comes later as the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and they only become strangers living together.

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Silent divorce occurs when you’re not legally separated from your spouse, but you’re emotionally, mentally and physically disconnected from your spouse. People neglect the tiniest details of their marriages, which opens up to bigger issues, and at that point it is difficult to link the problems and address it. When all these gaps open up and it is not addressed, it leads to silent divorce. All the couple goals and shared vision and desired destination will be put to stop, inside marriage,  goals and vision will be individualised and personalised, and it further widen the cracks.

It can come from lack of sexual relationship, when couples struggle to have intimacy, which may spark from lack of availability of one spouse or making excuses to evade it, it leads to emotional detachment. They see each other more like co-parent not necessarily husband and wife, and it just hit the rock bottom with this situation. It is understood that marriages cannot be lovey-dovey all the time, sometimes emotional tiredness can creep in, arguments can open doors for learning each other, if they sit down to talk about it. It can be chaotic atmosphere for children that are involved, as they will struggle to process the whole thing or may even lead them into taking sides.