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The Quarter Life Crisis Divorce

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The first quarter century of a person’s life tends to attract the greatest amount of attention from novelists, poets, and filmmakers, regardless of the artists’ ages or the era in which they are working. Finding one’s place in the world as a young adult is a timeless theme. Despite this, social conditions change from one generation to another; each generation has its time period-specific experiences and its own vocabulary to describe them. Millennials used to call the trepidation that you feel when you are 25 a “quarter life crisis.” The typical quarter life crisis involved not having enough financial stability for a living situation other than your childhood bedroom or a rented house stuffed to the brim with roommates you only somewhat got along with. Today’s twentysomethings face at least as much financial instability as the young adults of two decades ago faced. Journalists have even started sounding the alarm about Generation Z having little to no hope of, or even interest in employment, marriage, and parenthood. This is not everyone’s experience, though. When people marry young, the quarter life crisis sometimes takes the marriage down with it. If you are too young to have witnessed a Saturn return but your spouse has filed for divorce, contact a Birmingham divorce lawyer.

Everybody Grows Up in Their Mid-Twenties, but Your Rite of Passage Might Involve Divorce Court

Most divorce cases do not happen because one spouse is a reprehensible human being while the other is entirely innocent; instead, they happen because the spouses realize that they are incompatible. When people get married in their early 20s, or even straight out of high school, they often realize after a few years, as their adult personalities take shape, that they are not as well suited to each other as they thought they were.

When people marry young and divorce young, they tend to see their divorce as a rite of passage. Many of them go on to remarry, where both spouses have learned from their mistakes. If only one spouse has previously been married, they both at least have the wisdom of maturity. For people who married young, divorce is just part of growing up. A 30-year-old who has never been married and a 30-year-old who divorced at age 25 may share similar reflections on the vicissitudes of their mid-20s.

Divorce at an Early Age Is Emotionally Complicated but Financially Simple

Divorce is painful for everyone, but quarter life crisis divorce is almost always less messy than gray divorce. People who have been married to each other for a long time have more financial entanglements with each other, more marital assets and marital debts. They also have built up more years of bitter feelings. If you are in your 20s and going through a divorce, count your blessings.

Contact Peeples Law About Divorce for Young Couples

A Birmingham family law attorney can help you if you are young and getting divorced after a brief marriage.  Contact Peeples Law in Birmingham, Alabama today to schedule a consultation.

Source:

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