Resolve marital conflicts - go online

by diglog2008 on 2008-05-29 09:28:40

Nowadays, the Internet lets you complain endlessly about your marriage -- for free. Hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of wounded souls give and receive support on sites like Wikivorce and SurvivingInfidelity.com. The live chats, which mostly take place after 10 p.m., when the kids are in bed and the wife is downstairs watching television, "The divorce process is like a nightmare," said Paul Maitland, founder of Ondivorce.co.uk. "Being able to talk to other people helps you get away from that pain." That's one way of putting it: Much of the online discussion (who gets the dog? How to divide the pension?) can quickly devolve into what users describe as "volcano posts" -- long, detailed rants about their hatred of their spouses over petty domestic matters. One of the earliest divorce sites in Britain was Ondivorce.co.uk.