Image via WikipediaNot necessarily.......It is now considered that 'growing apart' is the most common motivation for divorce. In a survey which started in 2003 and ended recently, accountancy firm Grant Thornton have cited that 27% of couples are now divorcing because they have fallen out of love. Extramarital affairs, which have been the top reason for divorce, has fallen to second place.
Christine Northam, a counsellor working for Relate has said that she thought the change was down to "a slight shift in people's expectations of relationships".
Hmm. It's difficult to know what that 'shift in expectations' would be. After all, love, loyalty, honesty and trust are cited as the main expectations for the success of a marriage or long term relationship for most couples, unless you are of the theory that 'money makes the world go round'. Patience, understanding, support for each other.....and there's that other thing that can be a pretty important factor, you know, the 'S' word (said like Miranda Hart off the telly). Who knows what constitutes 'expectations' between two people in very private and delicate matters of the heart? Whatever the reason, ending a relationship is a painful, difficult mess and coping with those dark days of stress and with what can feel like a bereavement, can take its toll on health.
When Mendip District Council announced their cuts to the Voluntary Sector Budgets for 2011, one of the smaller groups to be affected was Mendip Relate. This service which served our area, is now no longer in existence. For many, this type of counselling can not only rescue flailing relationships, it can also ease the stress of break-ups, with sessions for both individuals and couples.
Relationship Somerset is a counselling service based at the Vine Health Suites in Hindhayes Lane, Street. Diane Grevatte and Pauline Drew are both Relate trained counsellors who between them offer seperation and divorce counselling, relationship counselling for individuals, couples and families, and also with seperating couples on aspects of parenting together and apart.
Mendip Counselling and Psychotherapy are based in Ashcott, Street but work in Glastonbury too. They offer counselling in relationships, communication and couple work. And for those who feel they are at the end of their tether and pushed to their absolute limits, aggression and anger counselling is available.
Glastonbury has many individual and qualified counsellors who can be brokered for support. Rosalie Ideson, Ros Baldwin, Sandra McKeever and Rachael Bark are all locally based practitioners and Sweet Track Counselling Services run by Collette Barnard is a Glastonbury based business specialising in short and long term counselling with individuals and couples.
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