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"What is the worst part of divorce?"

The worst part of divorce is the way that it affects so much of your daily life, including your emotions, your finances, and possibly your physical health. In fact, you can compare divorce to a nuclear chain reaction in which every problem aggravates related issues and one can end up marred in confusion and pain.

Perhaps the most painful and inescapable part of divorce is that you feel badly about yourself. Not only are you losing history and the familiar choreography of your life, but you are also losing a sense of who you really are. Your self-worth gets shaken to its core. Because of the natural inclination to define the end of a marriage as a personal failure, and to experience a crisis in self-esteem, it is important to understand that there are always legitimate reasons why relationships end.