The most popular day to file for divorce

If you plan to separate from home and hearth, you have one week left. The first Monday after Christmas and New Year's seems to be the moment to leave each other.

I imagine it like this. You just had a forced gourmet dinner with your entire family, which doesn't exactly make your partner any happier. On New Year's Eve, you hit them just a bit too hard, making you sentimental and loving. But then you wake up the next day with a hangover and everything seems a bit less beautiful, and you also think about good resolutions. That's how it could go, for example.

The American law firm Slater & Gordon even calls it Divorce Day. I don't want to call it a new holiday, even though it might feel that way for some, but it is certainly a memorable day. People around me nod in agreement when I ask when the parents waved each other goodbye. After vacations, you see an upward trend, but add Christmas to that and it goes through the roof.

The reason for the increasing requests at law firms? People take stock of the situation, evaluate life and thus the relationship, and that long vacation does in a not-so-great marriage with too much thinking in. By the end of January, things stabilize again and the divorce rate returns to the usual average.

One consolation: if you are of the married kind and get through these weeks, it only gets exciting again at the next vacation. You can look forward a bit.

P.S.: It also seems to be the case that cohabiting couples are happier, which is something to think about before you say ‘yes’.

P.P.S.: If you are planning to do it anyway, then these are the wedding trends and most popular wedding date of 2018.